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NORTH CAROLINA'S 
GLORIOUS VICTORY, 1898 


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THIS PUBLICATION IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO HON. F. M. SIMMONS, STATE CHAIRMAN, 
AND THE GRAND OLD DEMOCRATIC PARTY. 


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VICTORY of the Democratic Party 


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in 1898 is one that will forever be histori- 


cal to the people of North Carolina, for then 
it was that the State 


Their work since they convened at the 
State Capitol has been thorough and efficient, 
andonahigh plane. Their party pledges have 
been fulfilled, and 


went for ‘“ White 
Supremacy” and 
white rule by the 
magnificent major- 
ity of nearly twen- 
ty-five thousand 
votes: not only giv- 
ing handsome ma- | 
jorities for State offi- 
cers, but electing a | 

majority of Demo- | 


crats to the Senate | 
and Houseof Repre- i | 
sentatives, electing YZ 
an Assembly which “ies 


is indeed an honor 
to the grand old 
Democratic Party; 
menot brains, influ- 
ence and wealth, 
whose actions since 
the organization of 
the General Assem- 


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they can return to 
their constituents 
and say, “We have 
performed our duty 
and return home 
true Democrats.” 
Is it necessary to 
say more? 

The sketches in 
this publication 
have been compiled 
with much care,and 
the writer has tried 
to give credit where 
credit is due. None 
are represented who 
are not true Demo- 
crats, who are for® 
Democracy and 
“White Suprem- 
acy.” I leave it to 
such ~ distinguished 
statesmenand party 


bly of North Caro- 


C. BEAUREGARD POLAND. 


leaders as Hon. F. 


lina for 1899 have 


M. Simmons, State 


been such as to 
make all members of that party feel proud of 
the fact that they are Democrats. | 
This body has enacted legislation that is 
legislation, and has fulfilled its promises to the 
people in an able manner. It is with pleasure 
that I state to the readers of this Democratic pub- 
lication, that we have white rule in North Caro- 
lina, that we have statesmen who are of and for 
the people of our State. 


Chairman of the 
Democratic Executive Committee; Capt. S. A. 
Ashe, editor and writer; Hon. J. P. Caldwell, 
editor of the Charlotte Observer; Hon. Jose- 
phus Daniels, editor of the News and Observer ; 
Hon. H. G. Connor, Speaker of the House of 
Representatives, to tell the people about the 
Democratic Party, its aims, objects and prospects. 


C. Beauregard Poland. 


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BY CC. BEAUREGARD POLAND, RALEIGH, N. C. 


THE CAMPAIGN OF 1898. 


BY HON. F. M. SIMMONS, STATE CHAIRMAN OF THE DEMOCRATIC 
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, 

The Fusion majority over the Democrats in the State election 
of 1896 was about forty thousand. In the Legislature elected 
that year the Fusionists had nearly a three fourths majority. 
In the early days of 1898 there were but few Democrats in the 
State who believed it possible for their party to win in the 
election of that year, if the combination between its enemies 
should continue. This feeling caused many Democrats to de- 
sire and to earnestly advocate an agreement for cooperation 
between the Democrats and Populists. The Democrats, who 
urged cooperation with the Populists, agreed that in many 
vital particulars there was practical agreement between the 
latter organization and the Democratic Party. On the other 
hand, the opponents of Fusion, while admitting some points 
of agreement, contended that the points of disagreement were 
as vital and essential as the points of agreement; in local mat- 
ters immeasurably more so, and that the spirit which anima- 
ted these two parties was even more irreconcilable than their 
positions upon questions in which they differed. 

Before the meeting of the Democratic State Convention the 
dissentient wing of the party became very aggressive and 
boldly declared that such a union would inevitably demoral- 
ize and disintegrate the party. A committee representing the 
State Populist Convention, which had been held a few days 
before the Democratic Convention, presented to the latter a 
proposition of cooperation upon certain enumerated condi- 
tions. Among these conditions was one that the Fusion sys- 
tem of county government (which had resulted in filling many 
eastern counties with negro office holders) should be preserved, 
and another was that the Populists should be allowed to retain 
all the offices; State, county and national, which they had se- 
cured through four years’ cooperation with the Republicans. 

The opposition in the convention to this proposition was so 
overwhelming that it was rejected with but scant consider- 
ation. 

About this time it was claimed by some Populists that they 
had assurances from many Fusion Democrats that should the 
proposition of their party be rejected by the Democrats they 
would denounce the Democracy and give their allegiance to 
its opponents. The writer does not believe there was any 
foundation for this claim or that any such assurances had been 
given. However this may be, itis certain that after a short 
time, with scarcely any exceptions, the entire Fusion wing of 
the Democratic Party, accepting in good grace the decision of 
that party upon this question, fell into line and fought to the 
end with a zeal not surpassed by the most stalwart opponents 
of Fusion. With full knowledge of all that preceded and fol- 
lowed the decision of the party upon this question, it gives the 
writer the pleasure to say that the differences of opinion upon 
this question were honest differences as to what was the best 
party policy; and there was no thought or purpose of treachery 
to the party or its principles. Whatever may have been the 


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opinion of some at the time concerning the wisdom of the 
action of the party in rejecting Fusion, it can be confi- 
dently asserted, in the full light of future developments, there 
is now no Democrat who doubts the wisdom of that decision. 

The rejection of Fusion was an essential condition to Demo- 
cratic success, It was the corner stone of the campaign, and 
laid the foundation for a united and aggressive fight. 

There was in North Carolina at the beginning of the cam- 
paign a large and influeutial element which may be described 
as representative of the industrial business and commercial in- 
terest of the people, who had become alarmed at what they 
termed the growth of Populistic sentiment in the Democratic 
Party, and entertained grave fears that the party would not 
accord to their interest the full consideration which they 
claimed for it. They did not ask any special privileges or fa- 
vors, they only wanted assurances of the same fair and just 
treatment they had been accustomed to receive under the old 
Democratic regime, before there had been any alliance or talk 
of alliance with the Populists, which party they denounced as 
hostile to property rights. 


Much time was spent in the early days of the campaign in 
removing from the mind of this class this unfounded impres- 
sion with reference to the purpose of the Democratic Party. 

They were cited to our platform declarations upon this sub- 
ject and were told,while the Democratic Party was irrevocably 
pledged against special privileges to any, it was steadfast in its 
They 
accepted this interpretation of the platform and joined in the 
great fight for good government and white supremacy, with a 
zeal unsurpassed by any who marched under our banner. 

Thus it was that every element of our white people who 
still adhered to the fundamental principles of Democracy, and 
who despised the confusion, injustice and incompetency of 
Republican and Populist misrule, were brought together in 
harmonious activity and the way surely paved for the great 
and sweeping victory which followed. The discordant ele- 
ments of the party thus united, attention was turned to that 
large element of our population who are not immovably wed- 
ded to any party, but who love their State and will vote right 
if they are made to see what is to the best interest of the peo- 
ple and themselves. The question was how to reach these pat- 
riotic voters, many of whom, absorbed in their daily avoca- 
tions and taking but little part in politics, were not habitual 
readers of the newspapers or attendants upon political speak- 
It was confidently believed if these good people could 
be reached and given the facts and thus brought to understand 
the horrible condition of misrule, corruption and extravagance 
under the Fusionists they would certainly cast their votes to 
discontinue in power this unholy combination. 


determination to accord equal rights to every interest. 


ings. 


After patient and systematic effort, before the close of Aug- 
ust, the committee had secured the names of about twenty-five 
thousand voters, whose minds, it was believed, were open to 
the light of truth, and though at that time the committee had 
but little funds with which to pay for newspapers, it subscribed 


| NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 


for twenty-five thousand weekly papers and ordered them to 
be sent direct to these voters until the election. More names 
were constantly obtained as the campaign progressed, and 
more papers subscribed for; until, when the election came, 
the committee was sending out forty-odd thousand weekly pa- 
pers, direct to the individual voters. In addition to these pa- 
pers there was made up at headquarters and published weekly 
during the last two months of the campaign fifty thousand 
four-page newspaper supplements, which were distributed 
among the local weeklies throughout the State and sent out 
by them as supplements with their regular editions. 

In addition to this literature, there was sent out from head- 
quarters every week directly to the county chairmen, for 
distribution among the voters, great volumes of circulars, post- 
ers, and general literature; in all, over two million documents. 

The supplements above mentioned were generally incorpor- 
ated in the immense volume of weekly newspapers sent out 
from Raleigh each week. This literature went directly to the 
voters and they read it. It dealt almost exclusively with the 
current political events of the four years of Fusion misrule. 


During the month of August and during the first half of 
September we had but little public speaking—just enough to 
keep up a running fire, and not enough to tire the people. 


During this time the people were reading and becoming inter-’ 


ested. The work of organization was being vigorously pushed 
in every county, township, precinct and neighborhood; great 
aud special stress was laid upon individual work. A new and 
powerful organization, the plan of which was prepared and 
promulgated from headquarters, known as the ‘° White Gov- 
ernment Union,’’ had been started in the negro counties in the 
East, and had rapidly spread over the State. Over eight hun- 
dred of these clubs were organized. Events in Wilmington 
and Newbern, and in other parts of the State, had deeply in- 
terested the white womanhood of the State in the conflict and 
in the result. The ministry, always powerful in every great 
and good cause, saw clearly that morality, religion and civili- 
zation were involved, and that immense influence had become 
terribly aroused and earnestly enlisted in our behalf. Above 
all, the fearful conditions of the Kast, under the rule of incom- 
petent negroes and their white allies, forced to the front the 


great and paramount question of white supremacy. 


This was the situation and the line of battle as we entered 
the last month of the great campaign. It was pre arranged 
that this should be a month of hustings discussion, and the 
belief that the people would be made ready by the literature 
sent out from headquarters and the great and powerful presen- 
tation of our cause by the general press of the State, by this 
time to hear eagerly the great Democratic orators of the State 
was verified by the immense crowds that flocked to our meet- 
ings during the last five weeks of the campaign. During 
these weeks the whole State was covered by speakers, and nev- 
er before in the history of the State has such a powerful and 
effective work been done from the stump. Not only were these 
meetings distinguished for the greatness of the speeches made, 
but for the unprecedented numbers who attended them and 
the enthusiasm displayed. 


Our enemies were overwhelmed and demoralized. At first 
entrenched in their forty thousand majority they felt secure, 
but as the election drew near their confidence gave way to 
doubt, then fear, and then to panic, and as the close came 
they lost their bearings and, like a ship compassless and rud- 
derless, drifted upon the seething political sea which surged 
about them. In these conditions the memorable election of 
November, 1898, took place, and an adverse majority of forty 
thousand was pulled down and a Democratic majority of eigh- 
teen thousand forthe State, and more than twenty thousand 
for the legislative ticket was built upon its ruins, 


COL. JULIAN S. CARR, 


ONE OF THE SOUTH’S GREAT LEADERS IN BUSINESS AND EDUCATIONAL 


ADVANCEMENT. 


Even in the midst of times when patriotic fervor is stirred to 
the depths by the achievements of American arms and men, 
it may not be amiss to recall that ‘‘ peace ever hath her victo- 
ries no less renowned than war;” that to the patient, persis- 
tent victor in the upbuilding of industries, there is a meed of 
praise and honor due often as great as to him who storms a 
citadel or sinks asquadron. Indeed, I am disposed to think it 
really quite apropos to just such times as these that we turn 
aside for a moment, take our eyes off the glittering figures 
whose renown as warriors is dazzling the world, and consider 
how much of great and lasting benefaction there is in the lives 
of those who, by the quiet arts of peace, set armies of people to 
work at remunerative toil, and create from the elements vast 
centers of busy industry. 


Furthermore, it seems additionally fitting to choose this time 
for such reflections because of the sustaining loyalty which has 
so well-nigh universally and in such generous measure marked 
the active attitude of the people of wealth toward their coun- 
try during the short but mightily portentious conflict recently 
concluded. No more inspiring feature of the war presents 
itself to the profound patriot than the instant and open handed 
tender of their means by so many of the conspicuously wealthy 
men and women of America. I have long been ready to sub- 
scribe to the doctrine that the captains of industry were fre- 
quently as deserving of monuments as the captains of armies, 
and now, without contending for the removal of any of the 
bays from the brows of our garlanded heroes, I yet feel that 
the gratitude of the public might last long enough and go far 
enough to embrace within its folds those who remained at their 
homes and in their counting rooms, and who, while keeping 
the country’s tide of prosperity at the flood, also found time 
and inclination to make better the lot of the boys who went 
to the front and to carry comfort and cheer to the dependent 
families that were left behind. 


Instances of such devotion have been given a place in the 
records of the times; many more have never known the tell- 
ing. 
to mind, not only because I believe it to be a type of many of 
which little will ever be heard, butalso because there is behind 
it a lifetime of such widespread and useful activity that it fur- 
nishes as strong au argumentin favor of the proposition herein 
first laid down as can anywhere easily be found. I refer to the 
tender by Col. Julian S. Carr of $25,000 to cover the pay-roll 
of the First Regiment of North Carolina Volunteers, whom he 
visited in camp in Florida in June, and who had not received 
their first month’s pay at the time of his visit. While the 
Government refused to accept the advance, yet Colonel Carr 
managed to privately relieve the necessities of both officers 
and men of the North Carolina troops, keeping in funds until 
pay day arrived such as needed advances. Company I, which 
was recruited at Colonel Carr’s own town of Durham, was 
composed largely of young men with families in some degree 
dependent upon them, and were it not for the fact that Col- 
onel Carr kept out a scout from his own pocket, who made 
daily trips among the families of the soldiers who went to the 
front, ascertaining their needs and supplying them with the 
necessaries of life, many of those left behind at Durham must 
necessarily have suffered. Company H, of the Third North 
Carolina troops, was composed entirely of colored men from 
the town of Durham. Colonel Carr exercised the same foster- 
ing care toward the dependent families of the colored trooper 
that he did toward the whites. And in all these matters Col- 
onel Carr proceeded in so quiet and unostentatious a way that 


I am moved to say something of one case which comes 


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NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN, 5 


hardly the people whom he benefitted could tell for a certain- 
ty to whom they should turn to express their thanks. 

Now, the interesting part of all this is that it is in perfect 
accord with the life-work of Colonel Carr, who easily ranks as 
one of the richest, busiest and most philanthropical men of 
the South. I doubt if there is anyone, even in his own town, 
who can name half the undertakings to which Colonel 
Carr constantly gives the benefit of his means, his time and 
his energizing counsel, while I am sure his private benefac- 
tions could not be enumerated even by himself. He is the 
potent head, ruler and director of a score of undertakings. 

Colonel Carr has for many years been identified with the 
largest manufactory of smoking tobacco in the world. 

Everyhody who knows anything about tobacco is familiar 
with the Blackwell's Durham brand, for the sign of the bull is 
known throughout the length and breadth of the land, and 
under the shining sun there is no country where you will not 


COL. JULIAN S CARR. 


find devotees of this particular brand of the grateful weed. 
Standing in front of the huge factory at Durham there was a 
feeling akin to that one has when watching ships from far off 
ports. A whole train of freight cars stood at the siding, and 
into them a constant stream of busy darkies trundled packages 
of tobacco of various sizes. Examining the marks one found 
here a shipment to Australia, there one to Brazil, another to 
England, and during the year, I was told, the shipments cover 
every country on the globe. 

The various buildings of this big factory cover some twenty 
acres, and in them everything required in the manufacture and 
shipping of the tobacco is done, even including the making of 
the cloth bags and the printing of labels. In busy seasons an 
army of a thousand men, women and children is given employ- 
ment, and the factory is run up to its full capacity of 8,000,000 
pounds a year. 

No New York establishment is run with more exact and 
clock-like precision than this factory at Durham. Hon. Car- 


roll D. Wright, United States Commissioner of Labor, Wash- 
ington, D. C., making a tour through North Carolina, took 
occasion to spend a day visiting Durham. After a careful in- 
spection of The Blackwell’s Durham Tobacco Company’s im- 
mense factory, of which Col. Carr was the President, he re- 
marked: ‘Capital order; capital order. Never found factory 
cleaner or more systematic.’’ Noticing the respectful ease 
with which any of the army of men, from the gentlemen in the 
office, on through the factory, approached the president, and 
the patient consideration with which the president heard each 
one, the commissioner remarked: ‘‘ That is the proper solu- 
tion of the ‘labor question,’ There will never be any strike 
or labor disturbances in this plant, I guarantee.”” Everything 
is rigidly departmentized, and when your turn comes for a per. 
sonal interview with the presiding genius of the house—which 
may be in an hour and may not be in a day—yon are amazed 
that this man, with a seemingly interminable array of business 
before him, can ever find time for the thousand and one out- 
side affairs that, if you know Col. Carr, you are aware he takes 
an active interest in. If you are from the North, and have the 
hazy views about Southern indolence which formerly held 
such sway, you never cease wondering how it all came about 
that this man, Southern to the core, took a bankrupt business 
and has made it pay big dividends on a capital stock of 
$4,000,000. If you are familiar with the marvelous resources 
of the South, and know that in the vast development of the 
past twenty years Southern men have taken the great initia- 
tive, your surprise is less a shock to your beliefs, and in its 
place is rather exultation that the proper order has been fol- 
lowed out—that the energies of a Southern man have given 
force and direction to the development of an industry which 
has transformed a whistling station and a water tank into a 
thriving, bustling city of more than twelve thousand pt osper- 
ing people. 

The somewhat romantic genesis of Durham is already a 
twice-told tale. People have heard how the soldiers of Sher- 
man’s army, winding their way up from the sea, discovered 
the excellence of the North Carolina bright-leaf tobacco, and 
how their yearning for more of the kind they found while in 
camp near Durham, started a demand for it in the North. 
Blackwell & Green were among the Durham firms who under- 
took to meet this demand. About 1870, Colonel Carr, who 
was born at the old university town of Chapel Hill, near Dur- 
ham, returned home on a visit from Arkansas. He had gone 
to Little Rock after coming out of the Southern army and had 
engaged in the cotton business there with such success as may 
always be expected to follow industrious and intelligent appli- 
cation. His people urged him to locate a little nearer home, 
and, looking around, he perceived the opportunities at Dur- 
ham. For a few thousand dollars he bought a third interest 
in the house of Blackwell & Green, an interest which he has 
since increased, and thus at twenty-five years of age he began 
the career which brought him fame and fortune. For the first 
years all the profits of the business were spent in advertising; 
then the plant was increased in size and capacity, and so 
amazingly did the business grow that in 1883 the Blackwell’s 
Durham Tobacco Co. was chartered with a capitalization of 
$4,000,000, and was sold by Colonel Carr and his associates re- 
cently to the Union Tobacco Company, Colonel Carr retiring 
to look after his many other interests. 

There is almost no enterprise in his home city in which he 
does not bear a leading part, and his activities reach out all 
over North Carolina.and beyond. 

He is President of the First National Bank, President of the 
Golden Belt Manufacturing Company, President of the Elec- 
tric Light Company, Vice-President of the Durham Cotton 
Manufacturing Company, and Treasurer of the Interstate Tele- 
phone Company, allof Durham. He is Vice-President of the 


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Durham and Charlotte Railroad Company, President of the 
Ormund Mining Company, of Bessemer City, N. C., and is, be- 
sides, a stockholder in a dozen or more development enter- 
prises. He is President of the Durham Public Library, is 
Trustee of the State University of North Carolina, his alma 
mater; Trustee of the American University, of Washington, 


D. C.; President of the Board of Trustees of Greensboro Fe-' 


male College, Greensboro, N. C.; Trustee of the Davenport 
Female College, Lenoir, N. C., and Trustee of the Sanitary 
School at Southern Pines, N. C. He is a Director of the Ox- 
ford Orphan Asylum, Oxford, N. C., and also a Director of the 
Soldiers’ Home at Raleigh, N. C. He is Commander of the 
R. F. Webb Camp of Confederate Veterans, his feeling for his 
old comrades iu armis being very pronounced, and, at the same 
time, he is prominently identified with a number of the educa- 
tional institutions in the South. He is prominent in church 
affairs. Being a pillar of the Methodist Church in Durham, 
that denomination has, as might be expected, as comfortable 
and neat a house of worship as could easily be found. 

Very naturally, a man of such activities and catholicity of 
interests may be supposed to take a leading part in the political 
affairs of his city and State, and so he does. Colonel Carr has 
been prominent in the councils and direction of his party for 
years, but he has, like so many other men of vast business 
interests, performed his duties for the duty’s sake. He has 
not only never sought political preferment, but it is a matter of 
common fame that only for his positive and express prohibition 
he would have been overwhelmingly nominated for the office 
of Governor of his State. And it would be a hard matter to 
imagine a man better equipped for political success. Neces- 
sarily a judge of men, it is natural and easy for him to form 
affiliations with those who are leaders of men, while at the 
same time his cordiality, good fellowship and evident interest 
in the welfare of mankind attract to him people of all condi- 
tions in life. 

He took an active interest in the famous battle of North 
Carolina for ‘‘ white supremacy.” 

As might be expected, the home life of Cel. Carr shows a 
development in keeping with his business activities, for it is 
ever true that the successful man of affairs is most likely to be 
the one best rounded out in all directions. Sommerset Villa, 
with its palatial residence and elaborate grounds, is a fitting 
urban home for this busy man, and his interesting family is 
the object of a constant and lavish devotion. Taking the 
homely advice of a sound Arkansas friend, that it is always 
better to ‘‘marry a girl who is used to the range,’’ he chose for 
his wife a charming young woman of Durham, and now, with 
four sons and two daughters, all of whom have been given 
every benefit of a broad education and extensive travel, there 
is completed a home circle of rare interest and charm. 

In addition to his home place in Durham, Colonel Carr also 
owns a model stock farm of nearly 800 acres between Durham 
and Greensboro, near the venerable town of Hillsboro. It is 
called Occoneeche, a name handed down from Indian days, 
and signifying ‘‘a place of many waters.’? Through the farm 
is a road laid out by Lord Cornwallis, and the farm residence 
was built before the Revolutionary War of oak timbers sawn 
and dressed in England. To this suburban home Colonel Carr 
and his family frequently repair during the pleasant days of 
spring and fall, and while farming is to Colonel Carr largely a 


recreation and an amusement, it is significant and typical of 
the man that this farm is as thoroughly organized and as or- 
derly conducted as any business institution in which he has an 
interest. In recognition of his success in this direction, the 
presidency of the North Carolina Agricultural Society was 
tendered to Colonel Carr some time since, and he served fora 
while in that capacity. No finer horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, 
poultry or farm products than his are to be found, and, in ad- 
dition to having a charming sylvan retreat, Colonel Carr has 
made of it a business enterprise that pays. 


REMINISCENCES OF THE CAMPAIGN. 


BY J. P. CALDWELL, 


The campaign in North Carolina last year was certainly the 
most notable in the lifetime of the present generation, and 
perhaps the most extraordinary in the history of the State. It 
was planned in wisdom by the Democratic managers and 
pitched upon a ground which compelled victory. Again, it 
was errorless in its conduct, as to the victorious party, while the 
campaign of the opposition was a succession of blunders—its 
management was faulty, and the indiscreet utterances of its 
press and speakers assisted largely in its overthrow. 

The contest can scarcely be said to have been one of politics, 
for men of every shade of opinion were enlisted under the 
Democratic banner. It was made clear by this party that it 
did not attempt to put its uniform upon any voter, but its 
appeal was to men of all classes, in behalf of peace and good 
government, and of that honesty in politics which has been 
declared to be ‘‘an irridescent dream.’’ They were told that 
their votes at this time would not be regarded as committing 
them to anything in future, and it cannot be doubted that this 
assurance brought in many recruits, who may or may not be 
found hereafter under the standard which waved over them 
last autumn. While this policy was effective for that particu- 
lar campaign, it has a further and a far reachiug value in that 
it gave encouragement to independent voting, which is, after 
all, however much the independent may be derided, the best 
assurance of the permanence of the republic. 

It has been generally understood that the fight was won on the 
race question, and, undoubtedly, this was the controlling issue 
of the campaign; but it was not alone on this that the Demo- 
crats won out. The exposure of the crimes and scandais of 
the fusion regime was a potent influence in achieving the re- 
sult. The people had become sick and tired of fusion and its 
consequences. Not only were they outraged by the record of 
mal-administration, or shocked by the recital of scandals, 
which can be no more than hinted at here, but they were dis- 
gusted by the disgraceful traffic in offices, which had just been 
witnessed in North Carolina for the first time. The combina- 
tion of Republicans and Populists never had an honest basis 
to rest upon. Its promoters never saw the moment when they 
had the public welfare at heart. They had made common 
cause for nothing else except the spoils of office, and the people 
were witnesses of unseemly harangues between the allies as to 
which of the two parties to the compact was securing the 
greater part of the swag, their press publishing a list of the 
offices held by members of each, and giving the value of each 
office, expressed in dollars and cents. Public service was never 
before in this State reduced to so basealevel. But even if this 
fusion party had had the disposition to give the State good 
government, it was without the capacity to doit. Much of its 
legislation had failed before the courts—it was not able, in 
numerous cases, to execute its own will, even though it had 
the power. 

That such a combination as this, made up of incoherent ele- 
ments and dominated by selfishness and greed, should be over- 
taken by quick disaster was inevitable. Men who had left the 
Democratic Party, sincerely believing that they had great griev- 
ances, and entered the Populist Party, turned with loathing 
from it when they realized the depth of degradation to which 
they had been dragged through alliance with the Republicans. 
They repudiated their leadership and their party, and returned 
in droves to the party of their first affections. The record of 
fusion Legislatures and of a Republican Governor ; the scanda- 
lous conduct of fusion office-holders; the open and brazen 
trading in public office, added to the drawing of the color line, 
aroused the manhood of the State, and arousing itself like a 
giant it burst the fetters which bound it. 


NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. © f 


An element of success which should not be forgotten is 
found in the type of men which the Democrats put forward 
for office, especially for the Legislature. These men comprised 
the flower of the State. The best were called into service, and 
none were heedless of the call. Many a one of the State’s fore- 
most citizens turned from his business to answer the demand 
that he lead a forlorn hope, and it was such men as these that 
snatched victory from defeat. There was everything in the 
situation to appeal to the patriotism of the people. North Car- 
olina, the mother State, needed that her sons unbind her, and 
they were not indifferent to their duty. It was a magnificent 
triumph, strengthening the faith of all believers in popular 
government ; demonstrating that the people, though wrong 
for a time, will ultimately right themselves. 

These, then, were the three influences which gave the State 
back into the hands of the people who love it: the color line, 
disgust with the results of fusion, and the character of the 
candidates of the successful party. 

A bitter experience has been endured, but it is of such ex- 
perience that wisdom is learned. Let it be hoped that North 
Carolina will follow no more will-o’-the-wisps, luring into bogs 
from which escape is so difficult ; will go upon no more expe- 
ditions so costly and the consequences of which are attended 
with so much of humiliation. 


THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND THE 
PEOPLE. 


BY CAPT. S. A. ASHE. 


I am asked to make a contribution to this publication on the 
subject of The Future of Democracy in North Carolina. It is 
a subject that greatly interests me. The past is secure; our 
eyes are turned to the future. We have lately witnessed the 
glorious rising of the sun of Democracy after a dark night, 
when a sort of political chaos prevailed. In these early morn- 
ing hours, so to speak, the sky is still rosy with the beams of 
the luminary whose advent we hoped for and awaited with 
anxiety and solicitude. Noclouds obscure it. A bright efful- 
gence spreads itself over the entire scene, and the hearts of 
men rejoice and revel in the warmth of the glorious day. And 
this is well; for it is the strongest men, the most resolute men, 
the most thoughtful men, who best comprehend what we have 
escaped from, and best realize the importance and full mean- 
ing of the great victory that the Democracy have achieved. 

But if clouds be absent now, let no one deceive himself with 
illusive hopes that the storm-king has been conquered and 
slain. He still survives, and will return when the conditions 
again invite him to resume his work of devastation. Demo- 
cratic leaders who are earnest iu their purpose to benefit the peo- 
ple and the State will be careful to prevent those conditions of 
unrest from again arising. We have been much afflicted in North 
Carolina by men who have sought popularity and power by 
pandering to prevailing prejudices instead of seeking to pro- 
mote the welfare of the people. Some notable illustrations 
occur tome. I believe it was along about 1828 that such a 
crusade was made against banks that after a long debate in 
the House of Commons, participated in by some of the most 
masterful men of the State, a bill to abolish all banks and 
wind those institutions up, failed to pass only by the casting 
vote of the Speaker. 

Again in 1848, such a prejudice had been aroused against 
internal improvements by certain Democratic leaders, that 
although the bill chartering the North Carolina Railroad was 
drawn and introduced by a Democratic Senator, who with- 
stood his party in such matters, it passed the Senate only by 
the casting vote of Speaker Graves, who, because of that, was 
placed under the ban by his constituency. 


Now, what in the name of heaven would North Carolina be 
without banks, and without the North Carolina Railroad? 

And it was by appealing to similar prejudices that certain 
men who had been Democratic leaders, so inflamed their con- 
fiding adherents that they were able to lead them off into the 
Populist Party, when -every consideration required that the 
white men should stand together in North Carolina. These 
references serve to illustrate the suggestion that in the past 
there have been some demagogues among the Democrats, and 
that those leaders will serve the State and the people best who 
will enforce enlightened public action, rather than pander to 
the prejudices of the unthoughtful. Here has been the trou- 
ble in the past, and right here is the peril in the future. There 
need be no fear that the Democratic Party, by moving ona 
high plane, will not live. The principles of the Democratic 
Party are interwoven in the heartstrings of the people, and 
they cannot die—unless by some great change in the order of 
nature men and women undergo some strange metamorpho- 
sis, and things now dear to them cease to be of interest. 

The cardinal objects of political action should be to foster 
the honor, glory and renown of the State, and to promote the 
happiness and prosperity of the people. Every particular 
matter proposed for public consideration should be brought 
to this touchstone. Is it proposed to erect a monument to an 
illustrious statesman, or to a brave citizen who has fallen in 
battle, or to some man who with resolute heroism has given to 
his countrymen an example of sterling patriotism—such a 
monument would tend to lift up the heads of our people, and 
exalt them with noble impulses, and impart a more perfect re- 
alization of the excellence of citizenship. As the most fortunate 
man is he who livingin an atmosphere of virtue, in the midst of 
elegance and refinement, enjoys in congenial society the ripe 
fruits of a cultured mind, while possessing the respect and es- 
teem of his fellow-citizens, so the most fortunate State is that 
whose people have worthily won an extended fame for supe- 
rior excellence, for high virtue, for heroic action, for enlight- 
enmeut and liberality in their dealings with their fellow-men. 
In striving to promote the general welfare, the Democratic 
Party should seek to furnish more fuel to the fires of patriot- 
ism within the breasts of the people, to magnify in them a 
sense of their office of citizenship, to elevate the plane of po- 
litical action, and to place North Carolina in the front rank 
among the most renowned of our American Commonwealths. 

It is a laudable ambition for anyone to aspire to being an 
humble helper in such a consummation. Itis a great ambi- 
tion, worthy of a great heart, to be a leader in the work. With 
the diffusion of education, there is a wider prevalence of lib- 
eral sentiments, and a growing indisposition to tolerate politi- 
If, then, the Demo- 
cratic Party should commit the error of deferring to those men 
who lay stress on appeals to unfounded popular prejudice, we 
would probably see a repetition of the events of 1840, when 
that party, by antagonizing public improvements, was slaught- 
ered by the Whigs, and fell into a minority from which it sub- 
sequently escaped only because of the blunders of the Whig 
Party in National matters. And so it is true, that the Demo- 
crat who would serve the State best, will serve his party best; 
and he who would lead the people, or rather, a part of the 
people, in the wrong path, puts his party in jeopardy. Even 
then, on the score of expediency, it is best for the party to 
stand unflinchingly on the more admirable plane of lofty pub- 
lic action. It has been said that our Common Law is like the 
bark on a vigorous oak, it expands and enlarges to meet the 
growth of thetree. And indeed, in doing so, it but performs 
the function of its creation. Of what avail were it otherwise? 

I think of the Democratic Party as bearing the same rela- 
tions to the people and to the institutions of our country as 
the bark does to the tree. Its nature, its purpose, the law of 


cal action on any but the highest plane. 


8 NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 


its being, are irrevocably fixed—its uses, its performances, its 
services, are’ adaptations to particular exigencies. It answers 
the purpose of its creation by recognizing the varying needs 
of new conditions, and making all things contribute to the 
glory of the State and the enlightenment, happiness and wel- 
fare of the people. 

It is not so hide-bound that it cannot grow. Its life consists 
in development and expansion. But its structure, its fibre, its 
woof and warp, remain ever unchanged. 

When Jefferson returned from his mission to France, during 
the first Federal Congress, he says that he found nearly all the 
public men he met at the seat of government openly express 
ing the opinion that the “great experiment’’ would fail, and 
that it would not be long before this country would abandon 
its republican principles and establish a monarchy. He re- 
garded that as the issue and the peril for many years; and 
when, in 1796, he was defeated for the Presidency, the adher- 
ents of his views were filled with anxiety. On the approach of 
the next Presidential election, it is said that North Carolina 
wrote letters to the other States urging the formation of Demo- 
cratic societies for the purpose of securing the triumph of 
Democratic principles and the election of Jefferson. And such, 
perhaps, was the very beginning of the association of men into 
an organized Democratic Party for National purposes. Before 
that was the period of gestation: in natural course came the 
birth of the organization—and it was known as the Democratic- 
Republican Party. And now, at the close of another century, 
the principles of Jefferson, which secured him the confidence 
and approbation of the Democratic leaders of his day, still 
take first rank in determining questions of vital moment to our 
country. 

Washington’s majestic proportions have grown still more 
majestic, and his fame, and the veneration of his character and 
the appreciation of his unsurpassed services to mankind, have 
largely increased as the years have lengthened; but aside from 
Washington, of all those who gave character to the institutions 
of our country, Jefferson alone remains a living force, a vital- 
izing power—the only one, whose precepts are uttered in burn- 
ing words by the tongues of men. And worthy is he to be an 
example for all Democrats. He was a progressive Demiocrat. 
He did not tie himself to a dead past. He sought to promote 
the honor and glory of his country, no less than the happiness 
and welfare of the people. He took the responsibility of pur- 
chasing all of America beyond the Mississippi River, except 
what belonged to Spain—although believing that neither the 
President, nor even Congress, had the constitutional right to 
make the purchase; but that the people would adopt an amend- 
ment to the Federal Constitution ratifying and confirming his 
action. He believed in educating the people, and busied him- 
self not merely with the theories of government, but in put- 
ting his views into practical application. 

If he is to be taken as an exemplar—if it is by his lamp that 
our feet are to be guided, then the Democratic Party in North 
Carolina must be enlightened, liberal and progressive. We 
must not be narrow-minded as in 1828, or in 1840, or in 1848 ; 
nor must we be out of harmony with the grand march of events 
in the development of our country. Weshould not be a party 
of mere opposition, but a party challenging the respect and 
admiration of the world and commanding the confidence of 
the people, because of our wisdom and capacity to promote the 
public weal and to deal with questions entering into the life of 
the people and of our country. 

While on the one hand there is a peril to the party should 
it act on too low a plane, there is, on the other both a duty 
and a reward inducing us to maintain our party, ennobled with 
high sentiments and resolved on enlightened and liberal action. 

As the Democratic Party after the revolution of 1879 retained 
power for twenty-five years, so, as a result of their recent revo- 


lution, I trust it may administer our State affairs for at least a 
quarter of a century, and that it will be as progressive and 
useful to the State asin the past, and, indeed, surpass all for- 
mer efforts in enlightening the people and adding to their glory 
and renown. 

Our population by 1925 should be four millions; our chief 
cities should each contain forty or fifty thousand inhabitants, 
aud our wealth and power and capabilities for advancement 
should increase in like proportion. Truly, our State will then 
be a magnificent commonwealth. In the meanwhile, the world 
will have advanced in art and science and the nations in great- 
ness; but far beyond all others, these United States will have 
moved forward with rapid strides; and as we startled Europe 
by our superiority at Manila and Santiago, we will amaze the 
world again by our marvellous development and superiority in 
the arts of peace. _ 

The Democratic Party can perform its true mission here at 
home only by keeping North Carolina well abreast with the 
foremost in the sisterhocd of States. 

In Federal matters, let us also be progressive, even as Jeffer- 
son was progressive; but firm and unyielding, as that great 
apostle of Democracy ever was, to the siren song of the 


- monarchists. 


In the light of the startling events of the past year, it needs 
no gift of prophecy to foretell that henceforth new situations 
will succeed each other with marvellous rapidity. Thirty 
years ago there was a dim vision of ‘‘the man on horseback’”’: 
now ‘‘imperialism’’ is openly taught. Our only hope for the 
perpetuation of our republican institutions is in the saving 
hard sense of the American people and the steadfast adherence 
to Jefferson’s principles by the Democratic Party. 


THE MEMORIAL OF THE DEMOCRATIC 
VICTORY. 


BY JOSEPHUS DANIELS. 


‘“‘And Jacob set up a pillar, even a pillar of stone; and he 
poured a drink offering thereon and he poured oil thereon.”’ 

Thus did Jacob commemorate the hour and the place when 
the Almighty had answered him in the day of his distress and 
promised that he should be blessed above men. From the ear- 
liest ages it has been customary for men to leave a permanent 
mark to note great events, either a stone or statue, or a monu- 
ment that endures in the fundamental law. The pyramids 
of Egypt represented the highest aspiration of the human 
mind to leave a lasting memorial. To-day the monument that 
lives, and blesses while it lives, is found not in marble or in 
stone, but in the wise laws of a country. The Declaration of 
Independence will live to tell of the blessings that followed 
the Revolution when the Washington monument has crum- 
bled and been forgotten. The Magna Charta is more enduring 
than any marble or bronze reared in the reign of John, and 
Runnymede more famous in history than the seat of any En- 
glish war. 

As Jacob was delivered in the day of his distress, so the peo- 
ple of this good Commonwealth, when brought low by the rule 
of the ungodly, were delivered when they ‘‘ asked the way to 
the civic Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, ‘Come, and 
let us make a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.’ ”’ 

The victory we won in 1898 was not won by the arts of the 
politician. He had less to do with the redemption of the State 
than the preachers and the good women who in every village 
and hamlet invoked the aid of the Ruler of all things to pros- 
per the efforts of those who were working for the restoration of 
good government. I believe that to-day, as in Judea, there is 
a Providence that guides in the temporal as well as in the spir- 
itual uplifting of His peop’e and that His arms are not short- 
ened that He cannot save. 


NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 9 


What shall be the permanent memorial a grateful people 
shall erect to commemorate the mighty revolution of 1898? 
Shall we erect upon the summit of Mt. Mitchell a towering 
monument that shall look down upon five States? Shall we 
upon the shores of the Atlantic, pile stone on stone until a 
mighty temple shall be reared in which the music of the waves 
will forever sing the epic of our victory? Shall we erect some 
stately abbey where in bronze and marble the figures of the 
leaders of the struggle shall be given to stimulate posterity to 
deeds of civic valor? Or, discarding those monuments which 
mock man’s desire for lasting fame, seek a memorial that will 
tell forever in the new glory of a government by the intelli- 
gence and virtue of the State that shall inaugurate a ‘‘new era 
of good feeling and prosperity?” 

The Ebenezer, which the Democracy is committed to raise, 
must be built upon the solid foundation of party pledges faith- 
fully performed. Any other foundation will be ‘‘sinking sand.”’ 
Fortunately few promises were made by the victorious party. 
The Democratic State platform, which is the cornerstone of 
our memorial, was the inspiration of wisdom. It might be 
summarized in the shibboleth of the campaign, ‘'The white 
man and-the white metal.” The first half of the platform 
voiced the overwhelming sentiment of the party that the 
Chicago Platform is a safe 'amp to our feet, and that William 
Jennings Bryan is the leader of the Democracy, that stands for 
“equal rights to all and special privileges to none.’? From the 
opening of the campaign to its close, the Chicago Platform 
was approved and made the basis of our national hopes and 
convictions. Upon State policies we made ten distinct promises: 

I. To give security and protection to the property and people 
of every town and county in the State by putting none but 
capable white men in control of public affairs. 

2. To put white men only in charge of white public schools. 

3. To secure ‘‘economy in expenditure, the abolition of un- 
necessary offices, decency in administration, constant improve- 
ment in our educational system, charity to the unfortunate, 
and rule by the white men of the State.” 

4 To secure ‘‘the extension of the powers of the Railroad 
Commission, and closer scrutiny into their affairs in order to 
ascertain, establish and maintain such rates as shall be fair and 
just to the people, and to the transportation and transmission 
corporations. ”’ 

5. To prohibit free passes, which have been employ ed to de- 
feat the will of the people, and to give an undue power to 
political railroad corporations. 

6. To provide for the election of Railroad Commissioners by 
the people, and the selection of United States Senators in the 
same way. 

7. To put all foreign corporations upon the same footing with 
local corporations, and prevent the removal by foreign cor- 
porations of suits to tue Federal Courts, where, by means of 
their influence at Washington, the Federal bench has been too 
largely packed with corporation agents. 

8. To encourage the investment of capital in the State and 
to give it ample protection 

g. To enact a ‘‘ fair and just election law.” 

10. To do any and all other just and honorable things that 
will secure and perpetuate White Supremacy. 

There is no room to doubt that these promises will be per- 
formed. ‘The experience of the National Democracy in 1892 is 
a warning to any who might forget the declaration that secured 
the great triumph. Mr. Cleveland went into the White House 
upon a tidal wave that gave promise of a career of twenty 
years of power. In less than one year the party was divided, 
and almost destroyed, because the pledges of the party were 
wantonly broken and the attempt to carry out some of the 
pledges was denounced as ‘party perfidy and dishonor’’ by 
the President, who forgot the working Democracy which ele- 


vated him to office. If Mr. Cleveland had been true to the 
pledges upon which he was elected, Bryan would be in the 
White House to-day, the trusts would not be multiplying, and 
the country would not be threatened with the annexation of 
millions of negroes and half-breeds. 

There is an object lesson nearer home. The Fusionists were 
hurled from power, not merely because of the righteousness of 
our cause, but also because they had brazenly violated their 
sacred pledges. 
They remember the speech of the party leader when it has 
passed out of the mird of the speaker; and while slow to 
wrath, let that party beware of the indignation of the masses 
that it has deceived. It were more tolerable for Sodom and 
Gomorrah in the day of their judgment than for the man or 
party that fails in its pledges. 

In this day of reading, the people keep posted as to the ac- 
tion of their public servants. Their every action is under the 
calcium light. The men chosen to represent us in the legisla- 
ture are, in a sense, but messengers to carry to Raleigh the in- 
structions which the people have given them. No matter how 
wisely they may legislate upon other matters, their legislation 
will be a failure unless it can, when the Legislature has ad- 
journed, be said ‘‘ Every promise made in the campaign has 
been fulfilled.” 

“Ours is a covenant-keepiug party, and all the promises 
made were made in good faith, and if any agent of the party 
betrays the party in this supreme hour, he will be repudiated 
as the great leaders who were untrue in 1896 were cast into 
“outer darkness.”’ 

The people were promised above all else ‘‘ White Suprem- 
acy,’ and that it should be perpetuated. Assured that the 
pledges of the party upon other matters will be kept, interest 
now centres in a constitutional amendment that will disfran- 
chise the mass of ignorant negro voters. They cannot be 
eliminated except by constitutional enactnient. 
little patience with those short-sighted machine politicians 
who advise a half-way keeping of the promises made by the 


Tke country people have long memories. 


I can have 


party. There is no half-way ground in a revolution such as 
we have passed through. No election law can permanently 
preserve White Supremacy. As tong as 120,000 negroes stand 
united, with their names on the registration books, the sword 
of bad government hangs ready to fall upon our heads. 
than that; they present a constant temptation to the dema- 
gogue to ride into office by a division of the white vote added 
to the solid negro vote. The womb of politics contains more 
Jeter Pritchards and Marion Butlers than we buried last No- 
vember. If our promise to eliminate the negro is not fulfilled, 
we invite another cooperation between negroes and dissatisfied 
white men that will bring another era of corruption. The only 
safety is in the adoption of a plan like that of Louisiana, where 
the ignorant negro vote is legally and constitutionally sup- 
pressed, 

In the halls of Congress, the eccentric John Randolph once 
rose and cried out in his piercing voice, ‘‘ Mr. Speaker, I have 
found the philosopher’s stone. Itis, pay as you go.’”’ Gen- 
tlemen, I come to-night and say to you that in the world of 
politics I have found the true philosopher’s stone. Itis, ‘‘Keep 
your promises.’’ Let us stand upon the Democratic corner- 
stone and erect our memorial upon the solid foundations of 
party pledges fulfilled. If we are tempted to disregard them 
or any of them, let us turn our faces toward the Democratic 
Mecca and cry out, with the supplication of the humble Chris- 
tian: 


More 


‘*Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet; 
Lest we forget, lest we forget.” 

J. E. W. SuGGs represents Greene County. He is 50 years 
of age and was born in Greene County. He isa farmer anda 
Democrat. He was elected to the lower house by a majority 
of twenty-seven votes, 


10 NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 


JUDGE GEO. H. BROWN, Jr. 


The carrer of this gentleman has been one of eminent suc- 
cess. His record speaks for itself. Honorable and upright in 
his dealings with his fellow-men, no man in North Carolina is 
more esteemed as a representative citizen or as a judge than is 
Judge George H. Brown. 

This distinguished gentleman was born May 3, 1850. He 
was educated at the Horner High School, Oxford, North Caro- 
lina. At the age of nineteen he was a telegraph operator in 
the main office in New York. Shortly after this he undertook 
the study of law under ex-Chief Justice Shepherd, and was 
granted a license at the June Term of the Superior Court in 
1873 and began active practice. He was ambitious as a young 
man and took an active part in politics, he sought no office, 
yet was recognized as a leading spirit by his party, and was 
County Attorney of Beaufort County for several years. 


JUDGE GEO. H. BROWN, JR. 


In 1888 he was candidate for Presidential elector and received 
strong support from his party. 

On January I, 1889, his ability, from a legal standpoint, was 
recognized in a manner that proved the true worth of his valu- 
able services to the Democratic Party by his appointment by 
Governor Scales as Superior Court Judge. He was nominated 
without opposition by the Democrats in 1890 and elected. He 
was renomlinated without opposition in 1898 and reelected. It 
is unnecessary for the writer to go into details regarding his 
career as a Superior Court Judge, suffice is to say that North 
Carolina never had a more just or more able jurist on the 
bench. 

Judge Brown is a Jeffersonian Democrat, and has always 
fought for the interests of his party. His opinions are recog- 
nized by the people of North Carolina as expressions of rare 
value and worth. 


In conclusion let us say that Judge Brown’s success in life 
has been due to a thorough discipline, close attention to pro- 
fessional duties and the wants of the people, education and 
culture, his pure public and private life, and the conscientious- 
ness in which he discharges the duties of his office. 

Long may you serve us, Judge Brown, and in saying this I 
but voice the sentiment of the united Democracy of the great 
Tar Heel State. 


HON. THEODORE F. KLUTTZ, 


CONGRESSMAN-ELECT OF THE SEVENTH 
DISTRICT, 


Quiet and unassuming, no one on being presented to the gen- 
tleman in question would, unless aware of the fact, know that 
in him was one of the most successful lawyers the State has 
ever produced. Probably in the history of North Carolina no 
more worthy example can be found of what can be accom- 
plished by energy, integrity and well-directed efforts, than is 
so strikingly exemplified in the successful career of Hon. Theo. 
F. Kluttz, who will so ably represent the people of the Sev- 
enth Congressional District in the next sitting of Congress, and 
who has alone been instrumental in obtaining his present proud 
position before our people. Few men so early in life have at- 
tained the distinction, both at the bar and in politics, than has 
been enjoyed by Hon. Theo. F. Kluttz, who needs no introduc- 
tion to the people of this section. He is athorough believer in 
the old Jeffersonian Democracy, and became prominent in 
National politics when, after being elected chairman of the 
North Carolina delegation to the Chicago Convention of 1896, 
he seconded the nomination of William Jennings Bryan, and 
during the campaign which followed this Convention was an 
earnest laborer in the cause of the old Democratic Party and 
free silver, and in recognition of his services the Democratic 
Congressional Committee gave him the nomination for Con- 
gress from the Seventh Congressional District, and after a joint 
canvas of the entire district with his opponent, Hon. M. H. H. 
Caldwell, he was elected, receiving a larger majority than any 
other candidate for Congress in this election. 

As an orator, he is considered one of the best in the ‘State. 
He has a reputation of being ready with his language and very 
impressive in his manner. His main force lies in the art of 
putting the facts of his argument within easy grasp of his hear- 
ers. Asan attorney, he has always been very successful and 
enjoys a large and lucrative practice. 


J. B. Ho_Man, representing Iredell County, is a member 
who has represented his county in the General Assembly on 
more than one occasion. He was born in Iredell County sixty 
years ago. He was educated at the common schools of his 
county. He was a member of the Legislature in 1885, 1887, 
1889, 1891 and was elected again in 1898 by a majority of 750 
votes. He is, by occupation, a farmer, and is connected with 
Golden Valley Mills. He is an able and influential Democrat. 
His home address is Cool Springs, Iredell County, N.C. 


W. H. HOLLAND, representing the county of Wake, was 
born in Middle Creek Township sixty-four years ago andisa 
representative farmer of the State. He was educated in the 
public schools of the county. He is an able and time-tried 
Democrat. He was a magistrate of his township for two terms, 
He was elected to the Legislature by a majority of 535 votes. 


C. F. ELLEN, representing the county of Nash, was born in 
Nash County within one mile from where he now resides forty- 
four years ago. He isa farmer and true Democrat. He was 
appointed a Justice of the Peace by the Democratic Legislature 
in 1893. He was elected to the Legislature in 1898 by a ma- 
jority of 328 votes. 


P. A. Davis, who represents the county of Franklin, is a 
farmer who is an able representative of the Democratic Party. 
He was born in Franklin County: fifty years ago near Louis- 
burg. He was educated at the University of North Carolina, 
He was Register of Deeds in his county and also a Justice of 
the Peace. In 1891 he represented his party in the Senate, 
and in 1898 he was elected a member of the Legislature by a 
majority of 265 votes. 


NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. dal 


COL, JOHN S. CUNINGHAM. 


‘Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb 
The steep, where fame’s proud temple shines afar.”’ 


When age has silvered the locks and bent the form, ’tis not 
surprising to find that time, in its flight, has also wrought to 
such a one the highest meed of fame, but when laurels crown 


Photo. by Wharton. 
COL. JOHN S. CUNINGHAM. 


oue who, from the golden shore of youth, has but erstwhile 
verged upon the sea of manhood, we at once conclude that 
here is merit of the highest character. 

A career of success has been that of John S. Cuningham, 
one of North Carolina’s most distinguished Democrats—a life 
that’s marked by characteristics of firmness and determination, 
and these elements he has brought into use in the policy of 
his personal and political career. Conservative, yet progressive, 
his beneficial results are known the length and breadth of the 
State of North Carolina. 

Col. Cuninghamis ‘‘a native of Person County, and has spent 
his entire life upon the magnificent estate where his ancestors 
had lived for several generations and where the name has been 
known and honored for ‘over a century. He lives now at the 
same old homestead. This association of memories and remind- 
ers of the virtues of his ancestors have doubtless contributed 
much to the moulding of this most exemplary gentleman.”’ 

There are few men in North Carolina who are better known 
than is this distinguished Democrat. He has, by his able ef- 
forts, done much for the people of North Carolina, and is one 
of the most influential political leaders in the State. He is, 
perhaps, the largest individual tobacco planter in the world, 
and I dare say one of the most successful. 

The campaign of 1898 is one that Colonel Cuningham took 
an active part in. He was a delegate to the State Convention 
in May, 1898, and was Chairman of the Committee on Perma- 
nent Organization. He entered vigorously into this campaign, 
and called a meeting of the citizens of Person County to meet 
at Roxboro, N. C., the county seat of Person County, and pre- 
sided over the meeting. He called the meeting to order and 


miade a speech to the people, among whom he had been reared 
and had lived all his life, that was one of the most ably-delivered 
speeches of the campaign. He urged them to spare no efforts 
to redeem North Carolina and elect the State District and 
Senatorial and county ticket, although the forecast was that the 
county would be lost. It was largely due to his able efforts that 
it was carried, and-by a good majority too, notwithstanding 
the combined forces against Democracy. 

Colonel Cuningham is devoted to the people of his county, 
and they have bestowed every honor upon him, and stood 
ready to do so.at all times. He is at all times watchful of 
their interests. 

In 1896, in compliance with the desires of his people, he ac- 
cepted the nomination for the Legislature and was elected to 
represent Person County by a handsome majority. He was 
faithful and diligent and ever watchful of the people’s interest 
in the Legislature, and was very popular with all the members 
in both branches of the Assembly, and he wielded a strong 
and influential influence: He was the recognized leader of the 
Democratic side of the House, and was honored by them with 
unusual honors by being unanimously endorsed for Speaker of 
the House, representing a vote cast of 145,090 Democrats, who 
composed the intelligence and wealth of the State. He stood 
with courage and fortitude by the State’s best interest at all 
times, and it was so recognized by the people of North Caro- 
lina. He attended to the duties imposed throughout the session 
in a most exemplary manner, and was a member of the Judici- 
ary, Corporation and other important committees of the House. 
At one of the largest conventions ever held in Person County: 
his course was endorsed as their representative, and he was 
nominated to again represent them by a rising vote and by ac- 
clamation. Rising from his seat as chairman of the convention, 
he urged upon the people to choose some one else, but they 
refused to do so, and nominated him again by acclamation. He 
then told them of his private business, and of demands upon 
him which were sacred duties which he was in honor bound to 
perform, and it was a long time before they consented to nomi- 
nate another. It is seldom that the office seeks the man in this 
day and time, but this is among the rare exceptions. 

Colonel Cuningham has made himself and his name very 
dear to the people of North Carolina by the able manner in 
which he so successfully handled the State Fair last year. He 
was elected President of the North Carolina State Agricultural 
Society on the 22nd day of October, 1897, and so well did he 
perform the duties attending the position that it was the biggest 
and most successful fair ever held in Raleigh. Appreciating 
Colonel Cuningham’s good work and able management, the 
Directors of the Society reelected him by acclamation on Oc- 
tober 27, 1898, by a rising vote, and he was extended a vote of 
thanks by the Society. 

Colonel Cuningham is preparing to make the the fair this 
year (1899) larger and more successful than any fair ever 
before held in the State. 

Such distinguished and able men are a credit and pride to 
North Carolina. Their efforts speak in mute eloquence of their 
accomplishments. 


J. S. Davis, representing the county of Haywood, was born 
near Ironduff, in Haywood County, forty-six years ago. He is 
an influential farmer and a Democrat of ability. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools and also attended the Waynesville 
High School. He represented the Democratic Party in the 
Senate in 1891 and 3893. He was a District Lecturer for the 
Farmers’ Alliance in the Ninth Congressional District. He was 
elected to the Legislature in 1898 by a majority of 840 votes. 


12 NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 


HON. JAS. W. FERGUSON. 


The youngest, and yet one of the most able solicitors in the 
State of North Carolina, is that able young Solicitor of the 
Twelfth District, Hon. James W. Ferguson, of Waynesville, 
Haywood County, North Carolina. He has a brilliant record 
for a young man, as well as the confidence and esteem of all 
who know and associate with him. 

Mr. Ferguson was born in Waynesville twenty-six years 


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HON. JAS. W. FERGUSON. 


ago. He was educated for the bar and graduated with honors 
at the University of North Carolina, after which he read law 
under his father, Hon. G. S. Ferguson. He was admitted to 
the bar in 1893, and about one year after he won his license he 
was elected Chairman of the County Executive Committee, 
which position he filled with such able intelligence that in 
1896 he was nominated and elected to the Lower House of the 
General Assembly by the largest majority ever received by any 
candidate in Haywood County. As a legislator he won dis- 
tinction and the continued love and respect of his constitu- 
ents ; his able interpretation of legal lore was so well appre- 
ciated by his party that in the recent election he was nominated 
for the solicitorship of his district, which comprises ten of the 
strongest counties of the State, over Geo. A. Jones, and was 
elected, overcoming a majority of 800. 

Mr. Ferguson has, since early youth, been an active poli- 
tician and a recognized leader among the younger Democrats 
of his district. He is a learned and courteous gentleman and 
has made a most able and capable solicitor. He has many of 
the qualities that are necessary for a man in his position ; this 
with his able knowledge of law and his dignified bearing, as 
well as his just way of handling the many complicated cases 
that come before him, have won for him the respect of the 
people of the Twelfth District and the confidence of his brother 
practitioners. He has the brightest of prospects before him, 
and a reputation that any young man and many an older man 
can well envy. 

It gives me much pleasure to write of the success of young 
men who have achieved worth and prominence by their own 
efforts and perserving work. 


Mr. Ferguson is the junior member of the well-known firm 
of Ferguson & Ferguson, of Waynesville, and is one of the 
most able young lawyers in the State to-day. He is North 
Carolina’s youngest solicitor, and he has won for himself this 
distinction, and the love and respect of the Democratic Party, 
by actions that meet the confidence of those who have been 
associated with him. 

Such men as this are a credit to the grand old State of North 
Carolina and win success from natural courses of events. 

Mr. Ferguson has a brilliant future before him, and the pos- 
sibilities are that his voice will some day be heard in the halls 
of Congress, at the Capital of the United States. 

JOHN L. CURRIE, representing the county of Moore, was 
born near Carthage, Moore County, thirty-seven years ago. 
He was educated at the Union Home School. He is a Demo- 
crat who enjoys the- confidence of his constituents. He was 
County Surveyor for two years and was Sheriff of Moore County 
eight years. He was elected to the Legistature by a majority 
of 289 votes. 


G. H. CURRIE, of Bladen County, is one of the young repre- 
sentatives who has done much to advance the interests of the 
Democratic Party. He was born at Clarkton, in Bladen County, 
twenty-six years ago. He was educated at the University of 
North Carolina and at Harvard. He is engaged in the general 
merchandise business and is an active young politician. He 
was elected by a majority of 261 votes. 


J. O. CARR, representing the county of Duplin, isa young 
lawyer who has a bright future before him. He is 29 years of 
age, and enjoys the confidence of the Democratic Party, and 
was Chairman of the Democratic County Committee. He was 
a candidate for the Legislature in 1896, but was defeated by 402 
votes. In 1898 he was elected, after an ably fought battle, by 
a majority of 264 votes. He was educated at the University of 
North Carolina. 


J. C. BuNcH represents the county of Guilford. He is a 
farmer, and is an able representative of the Democratic Party. 
He was born at Oak Ridge 55 years ago. He was educated at 
the Oak Ridge Institute. He has been a magistrate and County 
commissioner in his County. He was a member of the Legis- 
lature in 1897, and was re-elected in ’98 by «a majority of 1,050 
votes. 


A. C. BoGGs, representing Catawba County, is a farmer. He 


_is 45 years of age, and a strong Democrat. He was educated 


at public and private schools. He has never sought an office 
before, and only consented to bea candidate in ’98 because his 
party desired it. He proved his popularity by winning the 
race with a majority of 450 votes. 


REv. T. H. BARNHILL, who represents the county of Pitt; 
is 38 years old, and has always been a Democrat. He lives 
near Gringall, Pitt County, N.C. Heisa farmer and a preacher, 
being a minister in the Freewill Baptist Church. He was edu- 
cated at private schools. He was elected to represent his county 
in the present Legislature by a majority of 346 votes. 


Dr. W. M. AUSTIN, who represents the county of Yancey, 
has been in public life ever since the war. He was in the war 
under Kirby Smith, of the Army of the Trans-Mississippi. He 
was educated in the public schools of Yancey County, and is a 
physician by profession. He is an able Democrat, arid has been 
Examining Surgeon for Federal Pensioners for a good many 
years. He is 62 years of age, and a representative Democrar. 


D. C. ALLEN, representing the county of Columbus, is 64 
years of age, is an able Democrat, and was in the Confederate 
army, which he quit with the rank of Colonel at the end of 


the war. He isa farmer by occupation. He was educated at 
the University of North Carolina. He was a member of the 
Legislature in 1867, and was again elected in 1898. 


NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 13 


JOHN HUMPHREY SMALL. 


“His life is gentle; and the elements so mixed in him, that 
nature might stand up and say to all the world, ‘Thisis A 
Mans %2? 


Here in this grand and glorious United States of America 
no man is born into a position of political distinction, but if he 
has the mental capacity, if the sidereal fire of true. genius 
glows in his heart and brain, there is no eminence that he may 
not attain. The true strength of Republican institutions 
mainly consists in this fact. There exists every incentive to 
exertion, and the goals of ambition are nowhere so lofty, for 
the reason that the preservation of liberty and the conserva- 
tion of the public good are the ends every public man who ac- 
quires‘ lasting fame keeps in view. 

The subject of this sketch, John Humphrey Small, of Wash- 
ington, N. C., was born 
August 29th, 1858, in 
Washington, N. C.; was 
educated in the schools 
of Washington, N. C., 
and at Trinity College, 
N. C.; is a lawyer in ac- 
tive practice; left col- 
lege in 1876; taught 
school from 1876 to 
1880; was licensed to 
practice law in January, 
1881 ; was elected Read- 
ing Clerk of the State 
Senate in 1881; 
elected Superintendent 
of Public Instruction of 
Beaufort County in lat- 
ter part of 1881; was 
elected and continued 
to serve as Solicitor of 
the Inferior Court of 
Beaufort County from 
1882 to 1885; was pro- 
prietor and editor of the 
Washington (North Car- 
olina) Gaze/te from 1883 
to 1886; was Attorney 
of Board of Commis- 
sioners of Beaufort 
County from 1888 to 
1896; was a member of 
the City Council from 
May, 1887, to May, 1890; 
and for one year during 
that period was Mayor of 
Washington, N. C.; was 
Chairman of the Demo- 
cratic Executive Com- 
mittee of the First Congressional District of North Carolina 
in 1888; was Chairman of the Democratic Executive Commit- 
tee of Beaufort County from 1889 to 1898; was the Democratic 
Presidential Elector in the First Congressional District in 1896, 
has been for several years and is now Chairman of the Public 
School Committee of Washington, N. C.; was elected to the 
Fifty-sixth Congress as a Democrat, receiving 19,732 votes 
against 18,263 votes for Harry Skinner, Fusion Populist, and 97 
votes for Joshua I. Whidbee, Independent Republican. 

Mr. Small is a partisan Democrat. Believing ardently that 
upon the ultimate triumph of the principles of political econ- 
omy that form the Democratic faith depends the preservation 


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of a truly Republican government, and the protection of the 
rights, liberties and happiness of all the people, he has re- 
mained ever true to these principles. He possesses a singu- 
larly clear, vigorous and comprehensive mind, dominated by a 
spirit prone to accept nothing upon mere authority. 

His love for the true and beautiful in man and nature has 
acquired an intensity and depth unknown to those who are 
strangers to this clear and fearless cast of unshadowed 
hauntedthought. At the bar his broad grasp of comprehen- 
sion and bold mentality find a congenial field. 

He is a clear, concise speaker, uses little or no unnecessary 
verbage, and it is indeed a pleasure to listento him. Of a stu- 
dious nature, he carefully weighs his point, and in a tilt with 
this adversary generally manages to come out the victor. 

Mr. Small’s success iu life has been due to a thorough dis- 
cipline, close attention to professional duties and the wants of 
his constituents, educa- 
tion and culture, his 
pure public and private 
ife and the conscien- 
tiousuess in which he 
has attended to his pro- 
fession. 

A review of the life of 
this estimable gentle- 
man aud jurist shows 
the power of patience, 
ambition and persever- 


‘ i ! ance of the American 
a Wa youth. What a glow- 
i ‘ ing example to young 
ROA Ky America, to the young 


man struggling along 
at the beginuing of a 
professional career ! 
Long may you serve 
us, Mr. Small; and in 
saying this I but voice 
the sentiment of the 
eS united Democracy of 
KP North Carolina. 
os BeAG)% 
LN ve a J. S. OLIVER, repre- 
senting the county of 
Robeson, is forty-three 
years old and was born 
where he now resides 
near Affinity in Robe- 
: son County. He is, by 
occupation, a farmer, 
and was educated at 
the common schools 
and at Trinity College. 
He is a Democrat who 


has represented his party in responsible positions for years. 
He was County Commissioner for three years and served in 
the Legislature in r8gr and 1893, and was reelected in 1898 by 
a majority of 845 votes. 


J. M. GamBILL, representing the county of Alleghany, isa 
native of the county he represents. He was born fifty-four 
years ago near the town of Sparta, and is a representative 
farmer in his county. He was educated in the common schools 
of his county. He is a representative Democrat who held of- 
fices of trust, and has gained for himself the confidence of his 
He has been County Commissioner and a Jus- 
He was elected by a majority of 201 votes. 


constitutents. 
tice of the Peace. 


14 


NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 


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Photo hy Wharton, 


NATOR R. L. SMITH. 
SENATOR W. L. LAMBERT, 


BSED ET Ga aia 


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ROBT. M. FURMAN, W. H. RAMSEUR, 
Editor Morning Post, Raleigh, N. C. Owner of the North Carolina Rolling Exposition Car, 


NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. hy 


REPORT OF THE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE 
THAT VISITED THE STATE NORMAL AND 
INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE. 


Senator Smith, for the Committee of Inspection, read the 
report upon the State Normal and Industrial College, which 
was very complimentary to the management and work of that 
institution. 

‘The following extracts are given from the report : 


““A visit to the State’s college for women at Greensboro 
will surprise any who have not previously visited that institu- 
tion. Before our visit of inspsection, probably not a member 
of the committee had a due appreciation of the magnitude of 
this enterprise. 

«The College owns 125 acres of land. Grouped on about ten 
acres of it are six buildings, four of brick and two of wood. 
Including about two hundred pupils in its Practice and Obser- 
vation School, its enrollment more than six hundred. The 
main college building and the main dormitory are large and 
handsome structnres, but even a casual inspection impresses 


were placed at the disposal of the committee and every facility 
offered for a thorough inspection of each department. 

‘*The members of the committee were most favorably im- 
pressed with all they saw, and especially with the earnestness 
and spirit of the student body. 

“Tt is a gratifying fact that North Carolina has an institution 
so well adapted to the educational needs of its daughters, an 
institution which offers the best opportunity for intellectual 
culture and industrial and professional training, and at such 
cost does not make these opportunities beyond the reach of the 
ambitious girl with limited means. 

“‘ About one-third of the students who have attended this insti- 


tution each year have come without help from parents, paying 


their own expenses for board, etc., with money either bor- 
rowed or previously earned. 

‘‘Twenty students earn their living expenses by caring for 
the dining room, washing dishes, preparing tables, etc. No ser- 
vant enters the college dining room. 

‘‘ We recommend that, if possible, the State make provision 
for following improvements : 

“yt, A Practice and Observation School building. 

“2. A modern gymnasium with proper equipment for the best 
training in Physical Culture. 

‘*3, A library in keeping with the worth, dignity and necessi- 
ties of the College. 

‘4, Fencing and improving the grounds. 

‘‘5, Increase of the dormitory room and recitation room. 
‘As all of the income, with’ the present appropriation, for 


THE STATE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE. 


one with the great need for more room. There is nota recita- 
tion room in the College which is not used every day by two 
or more members of the faculty, and the committee was 
thoroughly impressed with the crowded condition of the dor- 
mitories. In rooms none too large for two students we found 
three or four occupants. But even with this crowding, and 
with all trunks in the halls, there are boarding places for only 
350 students, the other students who come from a distance 
being compelled to board in private families near the College. 

“There is no general faculty meeting room in the College 
building 

‘“The library is only twenty by thirty feet in size, and conse- 
quently about one-fourth of the literature belonging to the 
library and the literary societies is in boxes and closets. 

“The room temporarily used for a gymnasium is only thirty 
by forty feet, and is not at all suited for the purpose, either in 
size, location or structure. ; 

‘“The Practice and Observation School is now taught in dor- 
mitory rooms. A new building for the purpose is an absolute 
and immediate necessity. 

“Records taken from the registration cards of students show 


that about 70 per cent of the regular students declare that - 


they would have gone to no other North Carolina college if 
they had not entered the State Normal and Industrial College. 
Thirteen per cent say that they would have attended some 
other North Carolina college and give the names of the re- 
spective colleges they would have attended, while seventeen 
per cent are unable to say certainly whether or not they have 
gone elsewhere. 

“The grounds of the institution are not enclosed, and there is 
need of considerable expenditure to make proper paths and 
roads over the premises. 

‘“The committee spenta large part of the day visiting the of- 
fices of the institution, recitation rooms, dormitory rooms, 
dining rooms, kitchen, laundry, cattle barn, dairy, etc. The 
books of the Bursar and complete statements of the accounts 


the next two years will be consumed in paying running expen- 
ses, salaries, notes and papers due for improvements in con- 
nection with a new steam laundry, power house, complete 
heating system, new kitchen and outfit and other recent im- 
provements, we see no possibility of providing the additional 
improvements without a special appropriation by the Assembly. 

‘‘ We desire to emphasize especially the importance of sup- 


“plyiug sufficient dormitory room for the young women of the 


State who desire to enter their College. It is evident that 
large numbers are prevented from attending because they can 
not secure admission to the dormitories and their parents are 
unwilling to allow them to board in private families. With 
the improvements suggested it is the opinion of your com- 
mittee that at least one hundred more students can be admit- 
ted and the efficiency of the work in every department would 
be greatly increased. The committee was impressed with the 
plain and unpretentious equipment of the College and with 
the lack of any evidence of extravagance in the management. 

‘« When all these facts are considered, and when the further 
fact is considered that this College is educating the mothers 
and teachers of the Anglo-Saxon race, we do not believe that the 
State can go amiss by making any reasonable appropriation to 
supply its needs. The State can make no better investment 
of its income. Moreover, the fact that all of the appropriation 
from the Federal Government for industrial training goes to 
the men of the white race and to negro men and women, and 
the further fact that only a few of the agencies in North Caro- 
lina for promoting higher education, through endowments and 
anuual appropriations,.are available for the education of white 
women, ought to make it unnecessary todo more than state 
the needs of the State Normal and Industrial College. It can 
not be true that the intelligence and generosity of North Caro- 
lina’s manhood is willing to see the opportunities of culture 
and industrial training within her borders more difficult of at- 
tainment by her white women than by white men and negro 
men and negro women,”’ 


16 NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 


CHARLES RANDOLPH THOMAS, 


REPRESENTATIVE IN THE FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS OF THE THIRD CON- 


GRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA, 


Was born in Beaufort, N. C., in 1861. Since 1867, with the 
exception of a few years interval, he has resided at Newbern, 
Nic 

He is the eldest of five sons of the late Judge Charles R. 
Thomas, who was Secretary of State of North Carolina during 
Vance’s term as War Governor, and a Member of Congress 
from 1871 to 1875. 

Three of his brothers are in the Presbyterian ministry, and 
the youngest brother is a licensed physician. 

In private life a man of integrity,"Mr. Thomas is well- 
equipped for public life and service. 

Graduating at the State University in 1881, and from the 
Greensboro Law School 
in 1882, since that time he 
has steadily and success- 
fully practiced his profes- 
sion. 

In 1886 he was elected 
as a Democrat to the State 
Legislature from Carteret 
County, and served in that 
body with some of the 
ablest men of the State. 

He was a member of the 
Judiciary Committee, and 
voted for and advocated 
upon the floor of the Leg- 
islature the bill to estab- 
lish the College of Agri- 
culture and Mechanic 
Arts so much desired by 
the farmers. 

He carried Carteret 
County by a majority of 
Over 500, the largest ma- 
jority given any Democrat 
since the war. 


Returning 
to Newbern, he served 
with fidelity the Demo 
cratic Board of Commis- 
sioners, as attorney for 
Craven County, for six 
years,and durivg that time 
was engaged in much im- 
portant litigation for the 
county. In 1893 he was 
elected trustee of the Uni- 
versity by the Legislature. 

In 1896 he Democratic 
Presidential Elector for the Third Congressional District, mak- 
ing a thorough canvass of the district. 

When the Electoral College met at Raleigh in January, 1897, 
in the Senate Chamber, he was chosen by his colleagues to 
make, and made the opening speech, nominating William J. 
Bryan for President of the United States. 
occasion fully sustained his reputation as an able, eloquent 


was nominated and elected as 


His speech on that 


and aggressive advocate of the Democratic cause, and was 
listened to by a large assemblage of people from all parts of 
the State. 

Mr. Thomas excels as an orator. . 

It is well known that at the University he received every 
oratorical honor to be bestowed. 


GEE UNG 


CHARLES RANDOLPH THOMAS. 


His speeches before the North Carolina Press Association, 
and in memory of Vance, before the Teachers’ Assembly of 
the State, and upon other occasions, have long since estab- 
lished his reputation in this line. 

His argument before the Committee on Elections in the 
United States House of Representatives in the contest over the 
seat of the Hon. John G. Shaw, was highly commended. In 
this case he was for Mr. Shaw, winning the case. 

Mr. Thomas has taken an active part in politics ever since 
his admission to the bar. 

In 1884 he was a member of the Committee on Platform at 
the State Convention, and afterwards was elected a member of 
the Democratic State Executive Committee, and has been a 
member of the County, Judicial and Congressional commit- 
tees. 

Always true to his friends and magnanimous to those who 
differ with him, he is one of the most industrious and accurate 
men in public life, and 
will be an ideal and ex- 
cellent Representative. 

Moreover he is in close 
touch with the people and 
has a clean and invulner- 
able record, and is person- 
ally popular with men of 
all classes and conditions. 
One of his friends writing 
of him says: 

““Charles R. Thomas is 
as true a man as lives. In 
thorough sympathy with 
the people, there is yet 
nothing of the demagogue 
about him, Well-bal- 
anced, studious, courteous 
and respectful to all; 
warm-hearted, liberal and 
of broad views, he is al- 
ways the same after an 
election as before elec- 
tion? 

To show his personal 
popularity it is sufficient 
to say that when a candi- 
date for the State Legis- 
lature in 1886 from Car- 
teret County, he received 
the votes of citizens of that 
county irrespective of 
a es race, creed or party. 

Mr. Thomas was nomi- 
nated for the Fifty-sixth 
Congress at the Democratic Convention of the Third Congres- 
sional District, which assembled at Clinton, N. C., on June 
30, 1898. His only opponent wasthe Hon. John Edgar Fow- 
ler, of Clinton, Sampson County, N. C., who was the Populist 
nominee. The Republican District Convention, which met 
at Fayetteville, N. C., September 29th, 1898, passed the fol- 
lowing resolution: 

“ Resolved, That we do not make a nomination in this Dis- 
tricte 

At the polls Mr. Thomas was elected, overcoming a large 
adverse majority. 

Conservative, fair, free from prejudice, while true to his 
party and its principles, he will represent and serve the peo- 
ple and interests of the whole district. 


NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 17 


NORTH CAROLINA’S REPRESENTATIVES 
IN CONGRESS, 1899. 


SENATE. 


Jeter C. Pritchard, Republican, of Madison County; term 
expires March 4, 1903. Marion Butler, Populist, of Sampson 
County; term expires March 4, 1901. 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. = 


First District—John H. Small, Dem., Washington. 

Second District—George H. White, (negro) Fusion, Tarboro. 
Third District—Charles R. Thomas, Dem., Newbern. 
Fourth District—John W. Atwater, Ind., Rialto. 

Fifth District—W. W. Kitcheu, Dem., Roxboro. 

Sixth District—John D. Bellamy, Dem., Wilmington. 
Seventh District—Theodore F. Kluttz, Dem., Salisbury. 
Eighth District—R. Z. Linney, Rep., Taylorsville. 

Ninth District—W. T. Crawford, Dem., Waynesville. 


LEGISLATURE OF NORTH CAROLINA FOR 
1899 AND 1900. 


SENATE. 
C. A. REYNOLDS, Lieutenant-Governor, Rep., Winston. 


First District (Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Pasquo- 
tank, Perquimans, Hertford)—T. G. Skinner, Dem., Hertford; 
George Cowper, Dem., Winton. 

Second District (Dare, Hyde, Tyrrell, Washington, Pamlico, 
Martin, Beaufort)—H. S. Ward, Dem., Plymouth; I. W. Miller, 
Dem., Alliance. 

Third District (Northampton and Bertie)—W. KE. Harris, 
Pop., Seaboard. 

Fourth District (Halifax)—E. L. Travis, Dem., Halifax. 

Fifth District (Edgecombe) Dr. R. H. Speight, Dem., Wren- 
dale. 

Sixth District (Pitt)—F. G. James, Dem., Greenville. 

Seventh District (Wilson, Nash and Franklin)—R. A. P. 
Cooley, Dem., Nashville; T. S. Collie, Dem., Louisburg. 

Eighth District (Craven, Carteret, Jones, Onslow, Lenoir and 
Greene)—James A. Bryan, Dem., Newbern; J. Q. Jackson, 
Dem., Kinston. 

Ninth District (Wayne, Duplin and Pender)—Frank A. Dan- 
iels, Dem., Goldsboro; I. F. Hill, Dem., Faison. 


Tenth District (New Hanover and Brunswick)—William J. 


Davis, Dem., Winnabow. 


Eleventh District (Warren and Vance)—T. O. Fuller, negro, | 


Warrenton. 

Twelfth District (Wake)—Fabius A. Whitaker, Dem., Ral- 
eigh. 

Thirteenth District (Johuston)—Hlder J. A. Jones, Dem., 
Gully’s Mill. 

Fourteenth District (Sampson, Harnett and Bladen)—F. P. 
Jones, Dem., Dunn; W. S. Robinson, Dem., Delta. 

Fifteenth District (Robeson and Columbus)—Stephen Me- 
Intyre, Dem., Lumberton; Joseph A. Brown, Dem., Chad- 
bourn. 

Sixteenth District (Cumberland)—W. L. Williams, Dem., 
Little River Academy. 


Estelle. 
Nineteenth District (Chatham)—J. A. Goodwin, Rep., Pitts- 
boro. 


Twentieth District (Rockingham)—William Lindsay, Dem., 
Reidsville. 

Twenty-first District (Guilford)—John N. Wilson, Dem., 
Greensboro, 

Twenty-second District (Randolph and Moore)—J. C. Black, 
Dem., Carthage. 

Twenty-third District (Richmond, Montgomery, Anson and 
Union)—T. J. Jerome, Dem., Monroe; Charles Stanback, Dem,, 
Mt. Gilead. 

Twenty-fourth District (Cabarrus and Stanly)—R. L. Smith, 
Dem., Norwood. 

Twenty-fifth District (Mecklenburg)—Frank’ I. 
Dem., Charlotte. 

Twenty-sixth District (Rowan, Davidson and Forsyth)—R. 
B. Glenn, Dem., Winston; J. C. Thomas, Dem., Midway. 

Twenty-seventh District (Iredell, Yadkin and Davie)—James 
A. Butler, Dem., Statesville; F. C. Hairston, Fork 
Church. 

Twenty-eighth District—(Stokes and Surry)—J. C. New- 
some, Rep., Kings. 

Twenty-ninth District (Alexander, Wilkes, Lincoln and Ca- 
tawba)—D. A. Lowe, Dem., Lowesville; H. T. Campbell, Rep., 
Vashti. 

Thirtieth District (Alleghany, Ashe and Watauga)—W. C. 
Fields, Dem., Sparta. 

Thirty-first District (Caldwell, Burke, McDowell, Mitchell 
and Yancey)—G. G. Eaves, Dem., Marion; W. L. Lambert, 
Dem., Bakersville. 

Thirty-second District (Gaston, Cleveland, Rutherford and 
Polk)—M. H. Justice, Dem., Rutherfordton; O. F. Mason, 
Dem., Dallas. 

Thirty-third District (Buncombe, Madison and Haywood)— 
W. J. Cocke, Dem., Asheville; Thomas J. Murray, Dem., 
Marshall, 

Thirty-fourth District (Henderson, Transylvania, Jackson 
and Swain)—J. R. Franks, Rep., Bryson City. 

Thirty- fifth District (Macon, Cherokee, Clay and Graham)— 
J. . Crisp, Rep., Murphy. 


Osborne, 


Dem:, 


OFFICERS OF THE SENATE, 


C. C. Daniels, Principal Clerk, Wilson. 

A. J. Maxwell, Assistant Clerk, Whiteville. 

W. A. Campbell, Assistant Clerk, Jonesboro. 

M. L. Shipman, Assistant Clerk, Hendersonville. 
Walter Murphy, Reading Clerk, Salisbury. 
Frank H. Clinard, Engrossing Clerk, Hickory. 
C. A. Alexander, Assistant Clerk, McLeansville. 
H. G. Godwin, Assistant Clerk, Dunn. 

J. H. Smith, Assistant Clerk, Plymouth. 

J. B. Smith, Sergeant-at-Arms, Fayetteville. 


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 1899. 
Hon. H. G. Connor, Speaker. 


Alamance—W. H. Carroll, Dem., Burlington. 
Alexander—A. C. McIutosh, Dem., Taylorsville. 
Alleghany—J. M. Gambill, Dem., Amelia. 
Anson—James A. Leak, Dem., Wadesboro. 
Ashe—Dr, B. E. Reeves, Dem., Lamar. 
Beaufort—B. B. Nicholson, Dem., Washington. 
Bertie—Francis D. Winston, Dem., Windsor. 
Bladen—George A. Currie, Dem., Elizabethtown. 
Brunswick—Dr. D. B. McNeil], Dem., Southport. 
Buncombe—Locke Craig, Dem., Asheville; J. C. Curtis, Dem., 
Asheville. 
Burke—J. H. Hoffman, Dem., Morganton. 
Cabarrus—L,. T. Hartsell, Dem., Concord. 


8 NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 


Caldwell—sS. L. Patterson, Dem., Yadkin Valley. 

Camden—J. K. Abbott, Dem., Camden. 

Carteret—J. B. Russell, Dem., Beaufort. 

Caswell—C. J. Yarborough, Rep., Locust Hill. 

Catawba—A. C. Boggs, Dem., Claremount. 

Chatham—L,. L. Wrenn, Rep., Siler City; J. H. Giles, Rep., 


Pittsboro. 


Cherokee—M. L. Mauney, Dem., Murphy. 

Chowan—W. D, Welch, Dem., Gliden. 

Clay—C. M. Fleming, Dem , Hayesville. 

Cleveland—C. R. Hoey, Dem., Shelby. 

Columbus—D. C. Allen, Dem., Armour, 
Craven-—Isaac H. Smith, negro, Newhern. 

Cumberland —H. MeD. Robinson, Dem., Fayetteville; D. J. 
Ray, Endor. 

Dare—C. T. Williams, Dem., Manteo, 

Davidson—C. M. Thompson, Dem , Lexington. 

Davie—C. L. White, Rep., Mocksville. 

Duplin—J. O. Carr, Dem., Kenansville. 

Curham—H. A. Foushee, Dem., Durham. 

Edgecombe—H. A. Gilliam, Dem., Tarboro; S. L. Hart, Dem., 


Person—C. H. Whitfield, Dem., Yancey. 

Pitt—W. J. Nichols, Rep., Greenville; Rev. T. H. Barnhill, 
Dem., Bethel. 

Polk—J. W. McFarland, Rep., Poor’s Ford. 

Randolph—I. J.Redding, Dem., Asheboro; J. M. Barrow,Rep., 
Carraway. 

Richmond—Henry Clay-Wall, Dem , Rockingham; Hector 
McLean, Dem., Laurinburg. 

Robeson—G. B. Patterson, Dem., Maxton; J.S. Oliver, Dem., 
Lumberton. 

Rockingham—Jos. H. Lane, Dem., Leaksville; J. R. Garrett, 


Thompsonville. 
Rowan—Lee S. Overman, Dem., Salisbury; D.R. Julian, Dem., 
Salisbury. 


Rutherford—J. F, Alexander, Dem., Rutherfordton. 

Sampson—R. M, Crumpler, Pop.,Clinton; Cicero H: Johnston, 
Pop., Clinton. 

Staunly—J. M. Brown, Dem., Albemarle. 

Stokes—R. J. Petree, Rep., Germanton. 

Surry—W. W. Hampton, Rep., Dobson. 

Swain—R. L. Leatherwood, Dem., Bryson City. 


Heartsease. Transylvania—G. W. Wilson, Dem., Brevard. 
« Forsyth-—-W. A. Lowry, Rep., Kernersville; J. K. P. Carter, Tyrrell—Wm. Maitland, Dem., Columbia. 
Rep., White Road. Union—R. L. Stevens, Dem., Monroe. 


Franklin—P. A. Davis, Dem., Laurel. 

Gaston—L,. H.J. Hauser, Dem., Cherrvville. 

Gates—John. M. Trotman, Dem., Trotville. 

Graham—O. P. Williams, Dem , Yellow Creek. 

Granville—C. W. Bryan, Dem., Granville; A. A. Lyon, Dem., 
Lyon. 


—Oretne—J. BTW Stes Pest Seow Hill. 


Guilford—J. C. Kennett, Dem., Pleasant Garden; J.C. Bunch, 
Dem., Oak Ridge. 

Halifax—H. S. Harrison, Dem., Medoc; W. P. White, Dem., 
Hobgood. 

Harnett—D. H. McLean, Dem., Dunn. 

Hay wood—Jos. S. Davis, Dem., Iron Duff. 

Henderson—M. S. Justus, Rep., Hendersonville. 

Hertford—J. F. Snipes, negro,.Menola. 

Hyde —Claude W. Davis, Dem., Englehard. 

Iredell—Jno. B. Holman, Dem., Cool Springs; Thos.J. Wil- 
liams, Dem., Mooresville. 

Jackson—Walter E. Moore, Dem., Webster. 

Johnston—J. Floyd Brown, Dem., EHarpsboro; D. G. Johnson, 
Dem., Rome. 

Jones —G. G. Noble, Dem , Tuckahoe. 

Lincoln—J. F. Reinhardt, Dem., Reinhardt. 

Lenoir—W. W. Caraway, Dem., Kinston. 

Macon—J. Frank Ray, Dem., Franklin. 

Madison—A. B. Bryan, Rep., Mars Hill 

Martin—Harry W. Stubbs, Dem., Williamston, 
McDowell—E. J. Justice, Dem., Marion. 
Mecklenburg—Heriot Clarkson, Dem., Charlotte; R. N. Ran- 
sou, Dem., Charlotte; J. EK. Henderson, Dem , Mint Hill. 
Mitchell—J. R. Pritchard, Rep., Bakersville. 
Montgomery—Wmi. Cochran, Dem., Mt. Gilead. 
Moore—John L. Currie, Dem., Carthage. 

Nash—Cicero Ellen, Dem., Nashville. 

New Hanover—Geo. Rountree, Dem., Wilmington; M.S. Wil- 
lard, Dem., Wilmington. 

Northampton—W..C. Courts, negro, Jackson. 

Onslow—Frank Thompson, Dem , Jacksonville. 

Orange—S. M. Gattis, Dem.,; Hillsboro. 

Pamlico—Geo. Dees, Dem., Bay boro. 

Pasquotank—J. B. Leigh, Dem., Elizabeth City. 
Pender—Gibson James, Dem., Maple Hill. 

Perquimans—F. H. Nicholson, Pop., Hertford, 


Vance—J. Z. Eaton, negro, Henderson. 

Wake—J. D. Boushall, Dem., Raleigh; Gaston T. Powell, 
Dem., Raleigh; W. H. Holland, Dem., Raleigh. 

Warren—J. H. Wright, negro, Warrentote= 

Washington—T. L. Tarkington, Rep., Mackey’s Ford. 

Watauga—W. B. Council, Jr., Dem., Boone. 

Wayne—W.R. Allen, Dem., Goldsboro; J. M. Wood, Dem., 
Goldsboro. 

Wilkes—E. H. Hendren, Rep., Wilkesboro; W. A. Tharp, 
Rep., Wilkesboro. 

Wilson—H. G. Connor, Dem., Wilson. 

Yadkin—H. S. Williams, Rep., East Bend. 

Yancey—W. M. Austin, Dem., Booneville. 


OFFICERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 


Brevard Nixon, Chief Clerk, Charlotte. 

H. C. Cowan, Assistant Clerk, Webster. 

Frank D. Hackett, Assistant Clerk, Wilkesboro. 
J. R. White, Assistant Clerk, Aulander. 

C. W. Laney, Assistant Clerk, Monroe. 

Thos. W. Alexander, Assistant Clerk, Charlotte. 
J. S. Elmore, Engrossing Clerk, Bryson City. 
Donald Gillis Assistant Clerk, Asheville. 

F. M. Moore, Assistant Clerk, Warsaw. 

G. E. Gardner, Assistant Clerk, Barnesville. 

J. R. Whitfield, Assistant Clerk, Seven Springs. 
John Downs, Assistant Clerk, Downsville. 
Edmund B. Norvelle, Engrossing Clerk, Murphy. 
Mrs. Margarette B. Shipp, Assistant Clerk, Raleigh. 
J. T. Kendal), Assistant Clerk, Goldsboro. 

A. E. Stevens, Assistant Clerk, Newbern. 

J.S. Bell, Assistant Clerk, Brasstown. 

W.R. Stalleup, Doorkeeper, Franklin. 

Thos. J. Wood, Assistant Doorkeeper, Trinity. 


EMPLOYEES. 


Will Lisk, Lisk; H. P. Rudisill, Mardon; Neil Atkins, Sum- 
merville; Y. B. Howell, Troy; A.M.Smith, Myatt Mills; T. 
W. Phillips, Idiewild; Benny Taylor, Laurel Springs; W.H. 
Nowell, Raleigh; L. T. Huddleston, Raleigh; John P. Kennedy, 
Raleigh; John F. Straughan, Raleigh; Melvin Andrews, Ral- 
eigh. 


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NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 19 


SENATOR THOMAS J. MURRAY. 


In writing about well-known statesmen, and men who are at 
all times out and pronounced in their views of what they think 
is for the best interest of the peoyle, it gives me pleasure to 
quote the following editorial from tke pen of that gifted editor 
of the Charlotte Observer, which appeared in that paper of Jan- 
uary 12, 1899: 

“Of all the interviews with Senators on the subject of an 
Election Law, published in our Raleigh correspondence, we 
liked that of Mr. Murray best: ‘A law,’ said he, ‘that will 
force each and every man to show his tax receipt.’ That is 
right. The man who can not pay at least a poll tax—who can- 
- not contribute this much toward the support of the govern- 
ment that protects him—should not only not be allowed to 
vote but should get off the earth. When this country was 
young there was a great flurry in it on the injustice of taxation 
without representation, aud because, largely, of this injustice 
it went to war with the mother country. The pendulum has 
swung the other way and now weare having entirely too much 
representation without taxation.’’ 


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SENATOR THOMAS J. MURRAY. 


Senator Murray is a member of the following important 
committees : Engrossed Bills, Corporations, 
Claims, Insane Asylum, Justices of the Peace, Public Build- 
ings and Grounds, and is Chairmau of the Committee ou Min- 
ing and Mineral Interests. 

The Hon. Thos. M. Hufham writes the following sketch of 
the life of his friend, Senator Murray : 

“Thos. J. Murray first saw the light in 1858, among the 
mountains of Madison County, N. C. 

“He came of sturdy parentage, the old pioneer stock that 
built their homes in the wilderness and guarded them at the 
rifle’s muzzle against wild beast and savage. 

“The bold and honest blood of his forefathers was transmitted 
in unimpaired vigor to himself. He has met and overcome 
opposing circumstances with the same fearlessness that charac- 
terized them. From the day when he left the little log school- 
house, where, on a slab bench, he gathered the rudiments of 


Agriculture, 


an education, he has been as intrepid a fighter as ever travelled 
a blind trail down a mountain-side at midnight. 

“In one of the strongest Republican counties of the State, he 
is a Democrat of uncompromising type. He accepted the doc- 
trines of Democracy, not simply as a family inheritance, but 
because he had carefully weighed and approved them in his 
own judgment. The foundation of his political faith was prin- 
ciple, not prejudice. 

“At an early age he began to take an active and intelligent 
interest in politics. He studied political organization in the 
township club; and the county debating society gave him his 
first taste for public speaking. After a few years, he exercised 
a powerful influence over the politics of his county, 

“During the campaign of 1890 he made an active and telling 
canvass in behalf of Hon. J. M. Campbell, who was Democratic 
nominee for Senator in the Thirty-third District. His work was 
of such a nature that it brought him still further into public 
notice. Two years later he received the Democratic nomination 
for Sheriff of MadisonCounty. He entered the contest, facing 
an overwhelming Republican majority, and made a superb 
struggle for victory. The Republican organization began their 
campaign against himin easy confidence, and ended it in alarm 
closely akin to panic. When the votes were counted, it ap- 
peared that he had reduced the Republican majority from 700 
to 195. Some idea of his capacity for organization and atten- 
tion to detail may be gathered from the following incident : 

“On the night before that election he estimated that his town- 
ship, normally Republican by a hundred and fifty votes, would 
give him a majority of ten. In reality he carried it by a ma- 
jority of fourteen. 

“In 1894 the County Commissioners and magistrates of Mad- 
ison elected him tax-collector for that county. But soon after- 
ward the fusion deluge burst over the State and Murray was 
railroaded out of office by the succeeding Legislature. 

‘‘Whenever there was a sacrifice to be offered for the good of 
the party, or a forlorn hope to be led, Tom Murray was the 
man for the hour. Soin the great campaign for white supre- 
macy, just brought to a glorious conclusion, the Democrats of 
the Thirty-third Senatorial District placed their flag in his hands. 

“The prospect before him and his brilliant young colleague, 
Hon. W. J. Cocke, was forbidding. At the preceding election 
the district had gone Republican by a majority of 558. The 
fusionists were engaged in a desperate effort to keep their hold 
on the Senate. Murray’s district was one of the places where 
the battle raged at its heigltt. It was the home of Senator 
Pritchard, who brought to the help of his party the weight of 
his personal influence, reinforced by a host of federal office- 
holders. He himself stumped Madison County from creek to 
cross-roads. 

“The crafty Pearson slipped to and fro therein his death race 
with Crawford. The Republicans of Buncombe, Haywood and 
Madison were demanding Murray’s head on a charger. But 
the ominous outlook had no terrors for him. The war cry 


which he delivered to the Democracy of the 33rd, from the 
campaign’s beginning to its end, was, in effect the stirring par- 
aphrase: ‘Let us go up and possess the land, for we are fully 
able to overcome it.’ 

“He fought the opposition to astand-still and won out by the 
phenomenal majority of 907. It is safe to say that his course in 
the Legislature was in keeping with his previous record—an 
honor to himself and to his party. 

“His character is marked by a strong individuality. Among 
his most striking qualities may be mentioned his devotion to 
his friends and his loyalty to whatever cause he champions. 
He never knew what it was to do anything half heartedly. Dif- 
ficulties and discouragements serve only to heighten his en- 
thusiasm and increase his determination as flames are fanned to 
fiercer heat by the wind. Endowed with peculiar gifts, his 
mind is swift and accurate in its operations. Above all he has 
the spirit of good fellowship, 


“«* That with a frolic, even welcome took, 
The sunshine and the storm.’ ”’ 


20 NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 


SENATOR J. A. BROWN. 


Senator J. A. Brown, the subject of this sketch, was born 
near Rockingham, in Richmond County, N. C., July 9, 1861, 
and was thrown entirely upon his own resources, through the 
death of his father, when a mere lad. He has held some posi- 
tion under the State or Federal Government since he was 21 
years of age. In 1881 he engaged in the mercantile business 
at Chadbourn, N. C., and retiring from this in 1888, engaged in 
the lumber business until in 1895 he entered into real estate 
and immigration field and planted the Sunny South Colony at 
Chadbourn, N. C., it being the first colony of Northern and 
Northwestern farmers successfully established in the State. 

In 1892 he was nominated and elected by the Democrats of 
the Fifteenth Senatorial District, composed of Robeson and 
Columbus counties, to the State Senate, where he served with 
distinction. He was again nominated for this position by the 
Democrats in 1896, and, while the Fusionists swept the dis- 
trict by nearly 1,700 majority, Mr. Brown, asin the previous 
campaign, ran from 100 to 300 ahead of the ticket, both in his 
Own county and iu the district. He also had the honor, in 
1896, of representing the Sixth Congressional District in the 
Chicago Democratic Convention. 

Mr. Brown is entitled to take most pride, however, in the 
campaign which has just passed to take its place with the other 
most important epochs in our State, history, and in which he 
took such an important part. At the beginning of the cam- 
paign he was called to the chairmanship of the County 
Executive Committee, and when the Senatorial Convention 
met he, for the third time received by acclamation the nomi- 
nation from the Democrats for the State Senate. Nothing 
daunted by the 1,700 majority against the ticket in the dis- 
trict two years before, he accepted the charge and entered the 
fight, bringing to his assistance that indomitable energy which 
has but little acquaintance with the word ‘‘can’t,’? and which 
has been the motive power of the many successes he has forged 
for himself, and emerged from the fight on the Sth of November 
with a majority of 1,339, nearly as large as the Fusion majority in 
the previous election. As Chairman of the Executive Commit- 
tee in Columbus, he directed the campaign with great tact and 
skill, and as Senatorial candidate he made a brilliant canvass 
of the entire district, everywhere enthusing his supporters, 
and completely demoralizing his opponents, notwithstanding 
that his immediate opponent was among the prominent lead- 
ers in the Fusion camp of the State. He was a most eloquent 
champion of the winning cause of ‘‘ white supremacy and 
good government.”’ 

Senator Brown has since the organization of the Senate taken 
an active interest in every movement tending to the welfare of 
the State. He has by his able ability become one of the recog- 
nized leaders of the Senate. Being a member of nearly all the 
important committees, and thoroughly understanding parlia- 
mentary rules and tactics, he makes a representation that our 
State is proud of. Aca Mi. 


GEORGE DEEs is 58 years old, and represents the county of 
Pamlico in the Legislature. He was born in Wayne County, 
where he spent his early days. After the war he settled in 
Pamlico County, where he is now asuccessful farmer, He was 
educated at the common schools, and at Guilford College. He 
is an able Democrat, who was seated after a hard fought con- 
test by a majority of 25 votes. He has held local positions of 
trust in his county. 

J. F. ALEXANDER, representing the county of Rutherford, is 
41 years of age, and is a farmer by occupation. He was edu- 
cated at the public schools. He was an alderman of the town 
of Forest City, and is a Democrat who has won his present 
honors. He was elected to the Legislature by a majority of 


614 votes, which is the largest majority received since the war 
in his county. 


SENATOR F. G. JAMES. 


No man in the Senate is better known to the people of his 
section of the State than is the distinguished Senator from 
Greenville. He is a gentleman with a charming personnel 
of manner, and when the people of his district selected this 
estimable gentleman to carry the banner of Democracy they 
proved their choice a wise one, and to-day no man stands 
higher in the Senate than does this gentleman. He has been 
in public life since early boyhood, and has occupied many po- 
sitions of honor and trust. He is one of North Carolina’s 
most able statesmen, and is a distinguished citizen. 

Senator James was born in Hertford, Perquimans County, 
forty years ago. At an early age he moved to Greenville, Pitt 
County, and has for many years been one of the leading citi- 
zens of the town. He was educated at the University of North 
Carolina, where he graduated in law, shortly after which he 
was admitted to the bar. He is a brillant orator, with a 
charming delivery, and has been for years connected with 
local and State politics. He has always been a staunch and 
representative Democrat. He is held in high esteem by the 
people of his district, and at Greenville, his home, he is be- 
loved and respected by all. He was Mayor of that city for ten 
years; was a member of the Senate in 1893. His ability asa 
legislator is recognized by his associates iu a most pleasant 
mauner, and his power as a law maker has been tested and 
found equal to the best. He represents the people of the 
Seventh District in an influential manner, and is ever prompt 
in advocating for the best legislation for his State and people. 
He is a member of the following committees: Chairman Deaf, 
Dumband Blind; member of the Judiciary, Propositions and 
Grievances, Counties, Cities, Towns and Townships, Educa- 
tion, Federal Relations, and Shell-fish Interests. Upon these 
committees he has been an active worker, doing much that 
advances the interests of the State, aud the able manner in 
which he represents his people wius for him the confidence 
aud esteem of his fellow- members. 

Senator James has brilliant prospects before him, and it 
may be, should he desire it, that he may represent the Demo- 
cratic Party at our National Capital. 


HON. THOMAS G. SKINNER. 


Step by step has this gentleman climbed the ladder of suc- 
cess, until to-day he is near the pinnacle. The lives of all suc- 
cessful men are marked by the same characteristics, energy, 
and close application. 

The subject of this sketch, Hon. Thomas G. Skinner, was 
born in Perquimans County fifty-seven yearsago. He lives in 


that charming little city of Hertford, and he has done much to 
upbuild this city. He is by profession a lawyer, and was edu- 
cated at that famous old school, the University of Carolina. He 
is asterling Democrat and has been recognized as a leading 
spirit in the grand old party for years; he has received from 
this party many honors,-and he has by his able energy won 
for the party many honors in return. He is perhaps better 
posted on parliamentary law than any other member of the Gen- 
eral Assembly, his judgment being quick and reliable. Heisa 
popular favorite with the members of the Senate, irrespective 
of their political faith, He was a Member of Congress from 
the First District of North Carolina for two yeats, and made a 
most able Representative. He is a leader of the Demoeratic 
Party in his district, and is one of the most thorough cam- 
paigners and organizers in his section of the State. He is a 
forcible and eloquent speaker, both on the stump and at the 
bar. Mr. Skinner has been prominently connected with almost 
every law case inh is county since he has been practicing law. 

He is a member of the following committees: The Judiciary, 
Fish and Fish Interests, Election, Education, Election Laws, 
Military Affairs, Propositions and Grievances, Trustees of the 
University, etc. 

His life has been filled with political experiences, and he is 
to-day one of the strongest members of the Democratic Party 
in the State. He is an influential man who commands the 
love and respect of his people. 


NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 


SENATOR J. A. BROWN. SENATOR F. G. JAMES. 


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SENATOR THOMAS G. SKINNER. SENATOR 


GEORGE COWPER, 


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SENATOR GEORGE COWPER. 


A prominent Senator and an able and influential Democrat 
is Hon. George Cowper, from the First Senatorial District, 
composed of the counties of Currituck, Camden, Pasquotank, 
Perquimans, Chowan, Gates and Hertford. 

Senator Cowper was born on December 8, 1847, in Hertford 
County, near Murfreesboro, in the ‘‘old Buckhorn neighbor- 
hood’, near Buckhorn Academy. He is by profession a law- 
yer, having read law at the University of North Carolina. 

Senator Cowper isno politician, and until the “white suprem- 
macy’’ issue presented itself during the recent campaign he 
had never taken an active interest in politics, except to sup- 
port good men and contribute to the campaign. 

At the Convention in 1898 he was nominated by acclamation, 
he accepted in the interest of Democracy, and was elected by a 
majority of-about 600 votes. In 1896 this district went Repub- 
lican by about 2,800 votes. This is indeed a brilliant victory 
and demonstrates the popularity of this able and distinguished 
Democrat. Senator Cowper is one of the most able lawyers in 
the State. He isa charming speaker and sets forth his ideas 
in a clear, concise manner. He adds dignity to the Senate and 
is one of the most popular of its members. He is well posted 
in parliamentary law and makes an able Senator. When the 
choice of the people of the First District fell on this gentle- 
man’s shoulders it was indeed a wiseone. He has represented 
their interests in an able and intelligent manner, at all times 
fighting and working for the best interests of ‘‘ white suprem- 
acy”’ and the State of North Carolina. Asa member of im- 
portant committees his influence has been recognized and felt 
by those for and against him. 

We are glad to see such able lawyers as members of the Gen- 
eral Assembly of the State. They add tone and dignity to our 
statesmanship. 


SENATOR R. B. GLENN 


Was born at Winston, N. C., was educated at Davidson Col. 
lege and at the University of Virginia. He is an able and in- 


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SENATOR R. B. GLENN. 


fluential Democrat who enjoys the confidence of the people- 
He was twice a member of the Legislature, was Solicitor for his 


NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 


district, and was twice Presidential Elector. He was also 
United States Attorney. In these positions he has done much 
for the Democratic Party and won many honors for himself. 
He is a forcible and interesting speaker who has a way of 
carrying his points in a most effective manner. 

After repeated solicitations by his friends he consented to 
make the race for the Senate, and after a gallant battle, was 
elected by a handsome majority vote. 

He is a member of the most important committees of the 


Senate, is Chairman of the Committee on Election Laws; mem-- 


ber of Judiciary, Proposition and Grievances, Finance, Insane 
Asylums, Counties, Cities, Towns and Townships, and Consti- 
tutional Amendments. 

Mr. Glenn is personall, a courteous and entertaining gentle- 
man, and is one of the foremost lawyers of the State of North 
Carolina. He is a credit to the Democratic Party. 


WALTER MURPHY. 


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HON, WALTER MURPHY. 

Everybody in North Carolina knows Walter Murphy, and 
his friends and advisers are pretty near everyone who kuow 
him. ‘‘ Pete’? Murphy, as his old college mates call him, is 
from the good old Democratic town of Salisbury. He isa lawyer 
by profession and was educated mainly at the University. 
While at Chapel Hill he was easily one of the most popular 
men there, and his popularity has followed him into active 
life, where by his ability, cleverness and geniality he has won 
for himself a place in the hearts of all who know him. He is 
easily reckoned as one of the ablest, brightest and most ac- 
complished young men in the State. While a student at the 
University he was President of the Law Class, President of the 
Athletic Association, editor-in chief of the Zar Heel, centre 
rush on the’ Varsity teams of 1888’ 89~’90~’92—'93, and the last 
year of his stay at Chapel Hill he was Secretary of the 
Faculty. In 1894 he was licensed by the Supreme Court and 
located in his native town of Salisbury. In 1896 he was nomi- 
nated and elected to the Legislature from Rowan County. Al- 
though, with one exception, the youngest member of that Leg- 
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that few young men ever equalled, and long before the close 
of the session he was the recognized leader of the ‘‘ Demo- 
crats’’ on the floor of the House. His speech before the 
Democratic caucus on the now famous ‘‘Lease’’ matter was 
said, by those who heard it, to have been masterful, eloquent 
and unanswerable, and the one that turned the tide against re- 
pudiation. His speech on the same subject on the floor of the 
House was admitted by both friends and oppcnents to have 
been the ablest on either side. No one who wasa witness to 
the scene at the close of the discussion on that question will 
ever forget how neatly and cleverly, by parliamentary ma- 
nipulation, he and his lieutenants put Governor Russell’s 
forces to rout by making them vote in favor of the ‘‘ Lease.’’ 
In the last campaign Mr. Murphy added to his already bril- 
liant reputation by his able, convincing and eloquent speeches 
on the stump in favor of ‘‘White Supremacy.” At the con- 
vening of the present session he was almost unanimously 
elected Reading Clerk of the Senate, which position he filled 
with ease and ability, and he is considered the best reader 
the Senate has had for years. By his courtesy, affability, 
genial disposition and cleverness to all, he has added many 
friends and admirers to his already large circle, who see 
in him and predict forshim a career of usefulness, credit and 
ability. to his State and his party. 


MR. PEARSALL AND HIS WORK. 


Mr. P. M. Pearsall, who had charge of the department of 
public speakings at Democratic headquarters in the campaign 
of 1898, was born near Clinton in Sampson County, August 28, 
1858. He obtained license to practice law in June, 1881. The 
same year he located at Trenton, in Jones County, where he 


Photo. by Wharton, 
HON P. M. PEARSALL. 
lived until 1893, when he moved to Newbern to continue the 
practice of his profession. In 1885 he represented Jones County 
in the Legislature, being the first Democrat to be elected from 
Jones County since the war. 
in politics and is always on hand at political conventions, and 


Has always taken an active part. 


has often been a member of the different Executive Commit- 
tees. He was a delegate to the National Convention of 1896, 
which nominated Hon. Wm. J. Bryan for President of the 
United States, and was one of the twenty-two delegates com- 
posing the North Carolina delegation. 

The first of August, 1898, Chairman Simmons, a warm per- 
sonal friend and former iaw partner of Mr. Pearsall, requested 
him to assist him in the work of the campaign. He at once 
proceeded to Democratic headquarters, and from the first of 
August until the day after the election, worked night and day 
for the accomplishing of the grand victory for ‘‘ White Suprem- 
acy.’’ The department of speakings, which was a most im- 
portant one, was conducted under the personal management of 
Mr. Pearsall, and it is admitted by all that he managed this 
work with rare tact and ability. He made four hundred and 
ten appointments for public speakings; of course this does 
not cover the hundreds of speakings made by local and dis- 
trict candidates. He made appointments in every county in 
North Carolina except Brunswick and Mecklenburg. The 
greater number of appointments he made for any speaker was 
for C. B. Aycock, which was thirty-six, followed by ex-Gover- 
nor Jarvis with thirty-one appointments. 
cratic headquarters required an immense amount of letter 
writing, amounting to from fifty to one hundred and fifty letters 
a day. His work threw him in constant and close contact 
with Chairman Simmons, whom he has known intimately for 
eighteen years, and Mr. Pearsall asserts that there is no man 
in the State Mr. Simmons's intellectual superior as a man and 
as an organizer; he is a man of the highest honor, true to his 
friends and at all times perfectly reliable. The management of 
the recent campaign by Mr. Simmons was done in a thorough 
and efficient manner that demonstrates the rare ability of our 
State Chairman. It could not have been excelled, for brother 
Simmons made no mistakes, and the result was a grand and 
maguificent victory. 


His work at Demo- 


Gaston T. POWELL, representing the county of Wake, was 
born near Pitt, in Wake County, 34 years ago. He is by oc- 
cupation a farmer, and is also engaged in the merchandising 
business on a small scale. He received his education at the 
academies of the county. He isa true Democrat, and enjoys 
the respect of his party. He was elected tothe Legislature by 
a majority of 540 votes. 


J. K. ABBoTT was born in Camden County 68 years ago. 
is by occupation a surveyor and a farmer. 


He 
He was educated at 
the public schvols, and at the Randolph-Macon College, in 


Virginia. Heis an able Democrat, who has represented his 
people in the General Assembly in years gone by. He was a 
member of the House in ’76 and ’77, also in 783. He was a 


member of the Senate in ’89 and in ’93. He was elected to 
the House to represent the county of Camden in ’98 by a ma- 
jority of 50 votes. 


G. M. FLEMING, who represents the county of Clay, is 49 
years old. He was born near Hayesville, Clay County. He 
is a practical farmer. He received his education at the public 
schools, and is an ardent Democrat. He was Register of Deeds 
for eighteen years. He was elected to the Legislature by a 
majority of 14 votes, and is an able Representative. 


L. H. J. HAUSER represents the county of Gaston. 
years old, and was born in Lincoln County. He is by occu- 
pation a merchant and farmer. He received his education at 
the Shelby and Dallas high schools. He is an ardent Demo- 
crat. He was postmaster at Cherryville for four years, and 
was a magistrate fortwelve years. He was elected to the Leg- 
islature in 1898 by a majority of 606 votes, 


He is 42 


24 NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 


A FAMOUS INSTITUTION—THE NORTH 
CAROLINA COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE 
AND MECHANIC ARTS. 


This famous college was organized by Col. Alexander Q. 
Holladay eight years ago, and was founded under an act of 
the General Assembly of the State. 

On the 2d day of October, 1889, the college was opened for 
students. Since that time its growth, both in the number of 
its faculty and in the number of its students, has been large, 
and its work has been thorough and devoted entirely to techni- 
cal education in all of its cognate branches. 

Col. Holladay attributes the steady and constantly increas- 
ing success of the college to the complete harmony, loyalty 
and ability of his faculty, by whom he has been invariably sup- 
ported with absolute fidelity and zeal. 

The establishment of a technical college in this State was due 
to the growth of the conviction that educated men are neces- 
sary—not only for the furtherance of the purely intellectual 
phases of a State’s life, but that they are equally necessary for 


Commonwealth. The agricultural department will graduate 
meu who have made a careful study of agricultural and horti- 
cultural methods, of soils, of plant food and growth, of fertil- 
izers, of dairying and stock-raising, of drainage, of vineyard 
and orchard culture; in short, the college sends out, not agri- 
cultural theorists nor so-called ‘‘ book-farmers,’’ but young 
men who have, by practice in best methods and with best ma- 
chinery and by study under experienced teachers, prepared 
themselves for intelligent and successful farming. 

The mechanical, electrical and engineering departments 
give students a general knowledge of mechanism, of building, 
of bridge-building, of designing, of dynamos and dynamo 
running—in fact, of all the work expected of the civil and 
mechanical graduates of first-class technical institutions. 

The college, however, does not make mere machines of its 
matriculates, but its aim is to make educated men at the same 
time it makes educated specialists... To this end general 
courses of study, similar to those taken in other colleges, 
complement the technical work. These include mathematics, 
bookkeeping, history, physics, chemistry, botany, logic, Eng- 


THE NORTH CAROLINA COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND MECHANIC ARTS. 


the development of the material resources of a State. It was 
felt that any State as rich in agriculture and mechanical re- 
sources as North Carolina is could not longer afford to fail to 
train men competent to get the best return from varied soils, 
or to direct the mechanical industries necessary to use up soil 
or mineral produets. It was believed that the increasing sharp- 
ness of competition demanded a more intelligent body of truck- 
ers and farmers and better methods of farming. 


It was also believed that it was poor economy in a State to 
have to send from without its borders for skilled artisans, for 
architects, for builders, for superintendents of machinery, for 
agricultural, analytical and industrial chemists, for civil, for 
mechanical, for electrical engineers, when it could educate its 
own sons for these useful and remunerative employments. 


The mission of the college then is, so far as it may be able, 
to supply to the State these men—men so prepared that they 
may become leaders in the industrial and scientific life of the 


lish language and literature, and all students are required to 
take these studies. 


C. W. Davis, of Engelhardt, represents the county of Hyde 
in the Lower House of the General Assembly, is 38 years old, 
and an able young Democrat. He was born at Engelhardt, 
and is by occupation a farmer. He was educated at private 
schools. He was elected to the Legislature by a majority of 
about go votes. 


J. C. KENNETT, representing the county of Guilford, is 
42 years of age. He was born at Pleasant Garden, in Guil- 
ford County, and received his education at the Oak Ridge In- 
stitute. He was a Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue under 
the Cleveland Administration, and has been a Justice of the 
Peace ever since he was twenty-one years old. He was elected 
by a majority of 1031 votes. 


NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 


SENATOR FRANK HAIRSTON, 


Was born in Virginia in 1862. He spent his early days on 
the farm, and received a liberal education, graduating from the 
University of Virginia with high honors. He resides at Fork 
Church in Davie County, where he is well-known as a success- 
ful farmer and a prominent and representative Democrat. 

When the famous “‘White Supremacy’? campaign began Sen- 
ator Hairston took an active interest in same, and his able abil- 
ity was recognized in a most substantial marner by his friends, 
and he was offered the nomination for the State Senatorship of 
the Twenty-seventh Senatorial District, which, after a careful 
consideration, he accepted, and he then began a campaign that 
startled not only his opponents, but his friends as well, in the 
thorough manner in which he perfected his organizations. His 
ability as an organizer was demonstrated in a manner that won 
the confidence of his friends and proved to them that they had 
selected as their leader a man who, while young in years and 
experience, was naturally a leader. And to overcome the ma- 
jority against him Mr. Hairston had to work indeed in an in- 
defatigable manner. The results simply demonstrated that 
it was a battle royal, and Senator Hairston was elected by a 
niajority of 86 votes. 

Since taking his seat as State Senator of the Twenty-seventh 
Senatorial District he has made for himself a new record, 
which adds to the splendid reputation he has been making for 
years. On all important matters pertaining to the best inter- 
ests of the Democratic Party this able young statesman 
has at all times been found right at the front. He isa man of 
high personal character, an eloquent speaker with clear and 
intelligent ideas. He is for the people and a fighter for their 
interests. Y 


: Photo, by Wharton. 
SENATOR FRANK HAIRSTON, 

Senator Hairston is very popular among his associates and 
has a brilliant future before him. He is a member of the more 
important committees of the Senate, where his able influence 
commands the respect of those who know him. 

Such men set a bright example for the rising young man- 
hood of the State of North Carolina, and their careers are re- 
plete with triumphs. 


bo 
Or 


SENATOR R. A. P. COOLEY. 


An able and influential statesman, a man who is a credit to 
the Democratic Party. 

R. A. P. Cooley, of Nash County, State Senator from the 
Seventh Senatorial District, is thirty-eight years of age. He was 
born in Wake County and spent his early days in Franklin 
County. He was educated at Wake Forest College and carried 
off the highest honors of his class in June, 1881. He read law 
in the famous law school of Dick & Dillard at Greensboro in 
1882, and was licensed to practice law in February, 1883, and 
has since enjoyed a lucrative practice in Nash County. He was 
married in October, 1891, to Miss Hattie G. Davis, of Rich- 


Photo by Wharton. 
A. P. COOLEY. 


SENATOR R. 


mond, Va., a charming and cultured woman. Senator Cooley 
has always been a staunch Democrat, and in the recent cam- 
paign he redeemed the Seventh Senatorial District by a major- 
ity of 1300 votes, against a majority in the previous election of 
about 3500. He has taken a prominent part in politics for 
years, and as a Senator has won distinction and honor for him- 
self. He hasrepresented his people in the Senate in able man- 
ner, taking part in all important discussions-and guarding the 
welfare of his constituents in an able manner. Heis a mem- 
ber of the most important committees of the Senate. He is 
Chairman of the Committee on Claims, member of the Judi- 
ciary, Deaf and Dumb and Blind Institutions, Insurance, Jus- 
tices of the Peace, Constitutional Amendments, Committees. 

Senator Cooley is a brilliant orator, and his voice has been 
heard in the Senate hall on all important discussions. He is 
a statesman who carefully studies the points of his case and 
presents his arguments in a clear, concise manner. 

Personally, Senator Cooley is a man of pleasant and enter- 
taining manner, a gifted talker and a gentleman whom it is a 
pleasure to meet. He has won many friends since the assem- 
bling of the General Assembly this year, and his strong work 
during the campaign and in the Senate has been recognized by 
his party in many ways, and should he so desire it there are high 
honors awaiting him in the political arena. 
Senator, is the wish of the writer. 


Suecess to you, 


26 


SENATOR WILLIAM JOHNSTON COCKE. 


Hon. William Johnston Cocke, who enjoys the distinction of 
being the youngest member of the Senate, was born in Ashe- 
ville on the 19th day of January, 1873, and is, therefore, only 
twenty-five years of age. 

Senator Cocke was graduated at Wofford College, South 
Carolina, in 1892, with the highest honors of that institution, 
taking the Senior Medal. 


Photo by Wharton. 
SENATOR WILLIAM JOHNSTON COCKE, 

Immediately after his graduation, and before he was yet 
twenty, he attended Harvard and took a post-graduate course. 
On his return home Senator Cocke was chosen at the early age 
of twenty-two cashier of the National Bank of Asheville 
which position he filled with credit to himself until about a 
month before his election as mayor of Asheville on the 7th day 
of May, 1896. In this contest Mr. Cocke succeeded in defeat- 
ing H. S. Harkins, (then the strongest Republican iu the city 
or county) and now the collector of the Fifth Internal Revenue 
District. Mr. Cocke, as his friends predicted he would, gave 
the city a wise and beneficent administration, aud fully -dem- 
onstrated his capacity both for leadership and executive work, 
which has since distinguished him. 

At the last election, when brainest and strongest men were be- 
ing se'ected to make the race in behalf of White Supremacy, Mr. 
Cocke was chosen as one of the standard-bearers in the Thirty- 
third Senatorial District, which in 1896 had given the Repub- 
lican candidates something like seven hundred majority. This 
majority Senator Cocke overcame, and emerged from the con- 
test with a majority of 600, making a gain for his party of 
about thirteen hundred votes. The Senator has been success- 
ful in all his undertakings, and it is just such men as he that 
makes North Carolina what she is. 

D. G. JOHNSON, who represents the county of Johnston is 
58 years old, and he is a Democrat who has the confi 
dence of his constituents. He is a farmer. He was a magis- 
trate in his township, also a School Commissioner. He was 
elected to the Legislature by a majority of 1698 votes. 


NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 


SENATOR M. H. JUSTICE. 


An able statesman and one of North Carolina’s most promi- 
nent lawyers is the distinguished Senator whose name heads 
this sketch. 


Senator Justice was born in Rutherford County, and was ed- 
ucated at the Rutherfordton and Golden Grove High Schools. 
After leaving school he studied law, and is to-day one of the 
leading lawyers and statesmen in North Carolina. He has 
since early youth taken an active interest in politics, and has 
been an honored and influential member of the Democratic 
Party. He has held many honored positions in the Democratic 
ranks; was Mayor of Rutherfordton, was member of the State 
Senate in 1877, was Presidential Elector in 1884, State Senator 
in 1895, and was reelected in 1898 by a handsome majority. 
There are few lawyers in the State who equal Senator Justice 
as a parliamentarian, thoroughly posted in the tactics and 
propositions that come up for consideration; he is at all times 
in position to legislate for the best interest of his people. He 
makes a most able Representative of his district. 


As a member of important committees he has performed 
effective work. He is Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, 
and is a member of the Finance Committee. 


As a Legislator he is brave and fearless in standing up for 
the rights of his constituents. He is a Senator that his district 
is proud of. He has taken through the Senate many bills of 


Photo by Wharton, 


SENATOR M. H. JUSTICE. 


important character, and as Chairman of the Judiciary Com- 
mittee he has fought at all times in the interest of the people 
of North Carolina and for the best legislation in the power of 
the General Assembly. He isa man, every inch of him, and 
is an honor to the Senate of North Carolina. He is a gentle- 
man with a charming personnel of manner, an able and fluent 
speaker, and is very popular with the members of the Assem- 
bly. He isa man who it isan honor to know and call your 
friend. A Democrat. 


NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 27 


SENATOR F. P. JONES 


Was born at Dunn, Harnett County, N. C. He was educated 
at Floral College, North Carolina, After leaving college he 
began reading law, and to-day is one of the few lawyers in the 
State who are known for their able ability. He was for nine 
years Town Counsel for Dunn, N. C., and was County Attorney 
of Harnett County five years. He is a staunch and loyal Dem- 
ocrat who has the confidence of his constituents. As a mem- 
ber of the State Senate he has won new honors for himself, and 
is one of the brightest members of the Senate. 


Photo by Wharton. 
P. JONES. 


SENATGR F. 


As a member of the following important committees his 
work has been thorough and effective: The Judiciary, Coun- 
ties, Cities, Towns and Townships, Education, etc. 

Senator Jones is loyal and true to his friends and is a credit 
to the party he represents, and during the session of the Gen- 
eral Assembly he has made many friends and has done much 
to advance the interests of the Democratic Party. 

As a Representative of the Fourteenth Senatorial District he 
makes one feel his personal interest in the welfare of his State; 
he is a statesman who works for the advancement of the peo- 
ple. Asa legislator he has aided much in creating Jaws that 
are beneficial. During te campaign of 1898, in which the his- 
torical White Supremacy campaign was fought and won, Sen- 
ator Jones took a leading part. He campaigned his district 
and made brilliant speeches for the Democratic Party. Sena- 
tor Jones has made himself and-his namie very dear to the peo- 
ple of North Carolina; he has attended to the duties imposed 
upon him during the sitting of the Senate in a most exemplary 
manner, doing much important and effective work. He is de- 
voted to the people of his district and they have bestowed 
many honors upon him. His popularity was evinced by the 
handsome majority he received for the Senatorship. 

Long may you serve your State, Senator Jones. 

C. A. WHITFIELD, of Yancey, Person County, was elected by 
a majority of 153 votes. He was born in Person County 39 
years ago. He has been County Surveyor, Register of Deeds, 
County Commissioner, etc. He is an able Democrat. 


SENATOR R. H. SPEIGHT. 


The subject of this sketch is one of the most able and in- 
fluential Democrats in North Carolina. He was born in Edge- 
combe County fifty-two years ago. Atan early age he began 
the study of medicine and attended the University of North 
Carolina, afterwards attending the Medical University of Mary- 
land, at Baltimore Md., where he graduated with high honors, 
after which he began the active practice of medicine and built 
up a lucrative and successful practice. He has at all times 
taken an active part in politics, yet aspiring to no office, and 
his ability as an organizer and manipulator is ably recognized 
by the people of his district. 

In 1891, at the repeated solicitation of his many friends, he 
accepted the nomination as State Senator from the Fifth Dis- 
trict and was elected by a gratifying majority. In 1898, to save 
his party, he again accepted the nomination for the Senate, 
and began a battle royal for ‘‘ White Supremacy’”’ and 
Democracy. Again was the confidence of tlie people shown 
for him, and he was elected by a handsome majority over 
strong opposition. Asa Senator, Dr. Speight has represented 
the interest of the people of North Carolina and his constitu- 
ents in the Fifth Senatorial District in an able and influential 
He is a fluent and easy talker, and is a physician of 
exceptionally fine ability. He is a broad-minded and liberal 
hearted man of high principles. As a politician he has made 
a record that is gratifying to himself and his friends as well as 
to the Democratic Party. 


manner. 


Photo. by Wharton, 
SENATOR R. H. SPEIGHT, 


He is a member of several important committees, and is 
recognized as a leading spirit among the members of the Gen- 
eral Assembly. Asa member of the following committees he 
wields much influence: Chairman of the Committee on In- 
sane Asylums, member-of the Committee on Corporations, Ju- 
diciary, Agriculture, Election Laws, Trustees of the University, 
Public Health and Enrolled Bills. He hasa bright and prom- 
ising career before him as well as a brilliant record behind 
him. The Democratic Party is proud of you, Dr. Speight. 


28 NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 


THE CENTRAL HOSPITAL—ONE OF THE 
STATE’S GRANDEST INSTITUTIONS. 


North Carolina has in its Central Hospital at Raleigh, N. C., 
one of the finest insane asylums and one of the best’ managed 
institutions in the country. This institution has, under the 
able management of its Superintendent, Dr. Geo. L. Kirby, 
made a record for the State of North Carolina that her citizens 
may well point and refer to with pardonable pride. ‘To-day we 
can boast of having one of the leading hospitals for the insane 
in the country. 

Under the able superintendency of Dr. Geo. L. Kirby this 
institution has become one of the best known asylums in the 
country, and is about the only insane asylum where every pa- 
tient therein, regardless of how violent he or she may be, is 
taken out and exercised on the grounds twice each day—that 
is, physical condition and weather permitting. This was one 


one here is by far the best managed asylum on earth. It is 
without an equal anywhere. The patients are the happiest I 
ever saw. I tell you there is not another one like it.” 

And the genius to whom credit is due for so happy a condi- 
tion is Dr. George I. Kirby, who was elected Superintendent 
June, 1894, and although only under his management for a few 
years, the marked improvement and advancement of the insti- 
tution within that time is a compliment to the wisdom and 
foresight of the men who placed Dr. Kirby atits head. Under 
his management the institution has grown in popularity and 
favor with all North Carolinians. The internal and external 
improvements of the asylum and surroundings have added 
greatly to the beauty and attractiveness of the place; the com- 
fort and happiness of the patients is more earnestly consulted 
than ever before in the history of the institution; the neatness 
and productiveness of the asylum farms clearly show that Dr. 
Kirby has not forgotten the training of his early youth, and 


CENTRAL HOSPITAL, RALEIGH, N. C. 


of the first reforms instituted by Dr. Kirby when he was ap- 
pointed Superintendent, and this has been followed by many 
others, until to-day our asylum is almost as perfect an institu- 
tion of the kind as can be made to be. 

Dr. Kirby has, since he took charge, reduced the expenses 
of the institution about 30 per cent per capita. In addition to 
this be has added several new buildings to the institution, and 
added much to the attractiveness of the grounds and surround- 
ings. Hehas built a large annex to the male department, 
which is fitted up with all the conveniences of a modern asy- 
lum, and has many advantages for the comfort of the patients. 
This was a much-needed improvement, and now makes the 
institution one of the handsomest and most imposing in the 
State of North Carolina, 

A prominent medical man, while in Raleigh recently, has 
the following to say about this institution: 

‘(J visit every year,” he said, ‘‘ more than 30 of the leading 
institutions for the insane in this country and I tell you this 


while he ranks as one of the leading physicians of the State, 
he is also one of the best agriculturists. The general condition 
of the institution to-day stands as a lasting monument to his 
executive ability and the result of treatment at the asylum of 
which he is the executive head, places him among the fore- 
most physicians of the day. 

Dr. Kirby brought to his life work a mind well prepared for 
serious work. His exceptional educational advantages were 
made the most of, and with native ability to graspthem, his 
professional career has proven a success. 

Dr. Kirby attributed much of his success to the warm friend- 
ship, wise counsel and untiring devotion of his inestimable 
wife. 


T. J. REDDING is 62 years of age, he represents the county of 
Randolph. He is a farmer and lives at Carraway, N. C. Was 
educated at private schools. He represented the Democratic 
Party in the Legislature in 1887. He was elected in 1898 by a 
majority of 37 votes. 


NORTH CAROLINA: STATESMEN. 29 


DR. GEORGE L. KIRBY 


Was born in Sampson County 60 years ago. He spent his 
boyhood days in the neighborhood of Clinton. At an early 
age he began to study medicine, and in 1860 he graduated with 
honors from the Long Island College, near New York. This 
was just a year before the war. After receiving his diplomas 
and credentials Dr. Kirby left the United States and went to 
Paris, to perfect himself in certain branches of his chosen pro- 
fession. He was there when the war broke out, and immedi- 
ately on receiving information that his country was at war he 
came home and enlisted as a private soldier with the Sampson 


Photo, by Wharton. 
DR. GEORGE L, KIRBY. 


Rangers. He served in this company one mouth, when he 
was promoted to the position of Assistant Surgeon of the Sec- 
ond North Carolina Regiment. He served one year and won 
a gallant record, his services and experience proving him a 
mau of rare ability, and a physician of high degree. His ser- 
vices were so much appreciated that he was promoted again, 
this time as Surgeon of the regiment. He served with his regi- 
ment, winning new honors, until January, 1865, when he was 
‘ordered to Wytheville, Va., to take charge of a Confederate 
hospital. He was there at the time General Lee surrendered. 
At this sime there were a large number of wounded and sick 
soldiers, both Confederate and Federal, under the Doctor’s 
treatment. Shortly after the surrender (in July, 1865,) Dr. 
Kirby turned his patients over to the local physicians at 
Wytheville and went to Goldsboro. There he formed a part- 
nership with Dr. J. B. Hughes, (now of New York), and began 
the practice of medicine. His war record quickly wou for him 
the admiration and respect of those whom he met, and ina 
short time he had a large and growing practice. Being a hand- 
some, dashing young gentleman at this time, he was much in 
society, and met Miss Mary C. Green, one of North Carolina’s 
fairest maidens, and he woed and won her. They were mar- 
ried in 1866, and have since lived happily and raised quite a 
charming family. Now the Doctor has his children, to whom he 
has the pleasure when feeling in a reminiscent mood, of tell- 


ing some of the thrilling war experiences through which he 
passed. ; 

Dr. Kirby continued the practice of medicine in Goldsboro 
until 1894, when he was appointed Physician and Superintend- 
ent of the North Carolina Insane Asylum, of this city. He 
accepted the same, much to the regret of his many friends at 
Goldsboro, and shortly after took charge of the institution. 
To-day North Carolina can boast of the fact that she has one of 
the best managed institutions in the country, managed by a 
thoroughly competent physician, who takes pleasure in his 
work, a fact easily demonstrated when his reports show that 
60 per cent of his patients are cured. 

Dr. Kirby’s time expires in 1900; he was appoi: ted for six 
years, and on the first day of March, 1gco, he will, unless re- 
appointed, retire, with a record pure and clean, and with the 
love and respect of those who appointed him. 


MR. W. R. CRAWFORD, JR. 


While writing of the Central Hospital it is with pleasure that 
I mention the able and efficient Steward and Purchasing Agent, 
Mr. W. R. Crawford, Jr., who is one of the most competent 
stewards in the State. 

He was born near Raleigh June 17, 1862, and spent his boy- 
hood days in that city. He was.educated at the local schools 
and Wake Forest College. In 1888 he was engaged as the Stew- 
ard for the Atlantic Hotel, at Morehead City; in 1889 he was 
elected to the position he now holds, Steward of the Central 
Hospital. He has made a diligent and successful officer, and 
has won the confidence and esteem of all who know him, as 


Photo. by Wharton, 


. 


MR. W. R. CRAWFORD, JR. 


well as of Dr. Kirby and the Board of Directors. He has been 
re-elected several times, and under his practical and experi- 
enced stewardship every interest of his department has been 
ably conducted with marked success. 
success, I took a walk over the garden of the institution, and 


As an evidence of this 


30 NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 


a finer garden, better filled with every variety of vegetables, 
I never saw. In the poultry and all other departments there 
was the evidence that a trained and knowing hand was in 
charge. Talking with a director recently, he paid a high com- 
pliment to Mr. Crawford’s management, saying that he did 
not believe any institution had a more competent or useful 
officer. 

Mr. Crawford is an able and influential Democrat, who has 
done much to further the interests of his party, and he has a 
bright and spotless record, as well as a brilliant future before 
him. 

Such competent officials are sure to make successful man- 
agers, and are creditable to the State of North Carolina. 

Mr. Crawford was a member of the committee appointed by 
the Confederate Veterans’ Association to receive the visiting 
militia at the unveiling of the Confederate monument in the 
Capitol Square. So well did he aid in entertaining the visitors 
that on their return home the Fayetteville Light Infantry 
unanimously elected him a life member, which was a fitting 
honor to this able young Democrat. 


JOHN W. THOMPSON. 


In publishing this edition as a historical souvenir of the 
great battle for White Supremacy, it is with pleasnre that I 
write this sketch about that able and distinguished Democrat, 
Jno. W. Thompson, Secretary of the State Democratic Execu- 
tive Committee, and whose work duting the recent campaign 
has received the endorsement, not only of the leaders of the 
Democratic Party, but of every representative Democrat in the 
State of North Carolina. 


Photo. by Wharton. 


JOHN W, THOMPSON, 


John W. Tbompsonwas born in Wake County, August 27th, 
1850, and was educated at the local schools of the county and 
_at Wake Forest. After leaving school he engaged in the mer- 
cantile and lumber business. In 1880 he was Chairman of the 
County Executive Committee. He was steward and purchas- 
Ing agent for the North Carolina Insane Asylum, which posi- 


tion he held about eight ‘years, with honor to himself and to 
the Democratic Party. On his retirement from this position 
he accepted the General Managership for North Carolina of 
the Manhattan Life Insurance Company, which position he 
still retains in connection with his other business, 

In 1890 he was honored by being elected Clerk over the 
president of the County Alliance, which position he filled with 
credit to himself and friends. 

Mr. Thompson is an active member of the Masonic Frater- 
nity, and is a prominent Odd Fellow. 

In 1888 Mr. Thompson was a delegate to the Convention of 
the Young Men’s National Democratic Club, which met at 
Baltimore, Md., in which convention he took an active and 
prominent part, and was honored by being elected Vice- 
President of the convention for the State of North Carolina. 

Mr. Thompson has always been a prominent leader in 
county and State politics, and is nearly always in attendance 
at the State Conventions. Heis a man who has the confidence 
and respect of the party, and has a bright future before him. 

Mr. Thompson has been quite successful in the insurance 
fleld, and has a prosperous and lucrative business. 

Such men are a credit to the grand old party they have the 
honor of representing, and add much to the character and tone 
of the Democaatic Party. 


A. C. MCINTOSH, representing the county of Alexander, is 
39 years old, was born in Taylorsville, in Alexander County. 
He is an attorney by profession, was educated at Davidson 
College. He was Superintendent of the County Schools of his 
county, and was Attorney for the County Commissioners. He 
was elected to the Legislature by a majority of 132 votes. 


M. L. MAUNEY, representing the county of Cherokee, was 
born in Cherokee County 45 yearsago. He was educated at the 
North Georgia A. & M. College. He was well known in poli- 
tics in Georgia, where he was a member of the Legislature, 
representing Union County. He was postmaster at Murphy, 
N. C., and was elected to the Legislature in 1898 by a major- 
ity of 54 votes. 


Dr. B. E. REEVES, representing the county of Ashe, is a 
practicing physician. He is 31 years old, was born at Lamar, 
Ashe County. He was educated at common schools and grad- 
uated in medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons 
at Baltimore, Md. He is an able Democrat. He has been 
Chairman of the County Executive Committee of Ashe County 
several times. He was elected to the Legislature by a major- 
ity of 84 votes. 


J. H. LANE, of Leaksville, Rockingham County, represents 
the county of Rockingham. He was born at Leaksville 54 
years ago. He isa farmer and a Democrat. He was educated 
at the local academies of his county. He is a representative 
Democrat and was elected to the Lower House of the General 
Assembly of North Carolina by a majority of 250 votes. 


Mr. S. M. BEASLEY, representing Currituck County, is 35 
years old. He was born in Currituck County, where he is 
a prosperous farmer. He was educated at public schools, and- 
is a representative Democrat. He has been a Justice of the 
Peace and a Notary Public. He was elected by a majority of 
618 votes. 


Mr. G. G. NOBLE, representing the county of Jones, was 
born in Lenoir County 28 years ago. He was educated at 
Clinton High School, and is well known as a teacher. He 
is a good Democrat, and was elected to represent Jones 
County in 1898 by a majority of 6 votes. 


NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 31 


SENATOR DAVID A. LOWE, 


ONE OF NORTH CAROLINA’S MOST DISTINGUISHED REPRESENTATIVES 


A publication of Distinguished North Carolina Democrats 
would be incomplete without a sketch of this able gentleman, 
who asserted himself in a most demonstrative way during the 
famous campaign of 1898, by reversing in his Senatorial Dis- 


Photo, by Wharton. 
SENATOR DAVID A. LOWE, 


trict a majority against himself of 1,600, and was elected amid 
much rejoicing by a handsome majority. 

Col. Lowe is an able statesman, and is a member of some of 
the most important committees of the Senate, among which 
are the following: Pensions, Public Health, Privileges and 
Elections, Insurance, and Public Buildings and Grounds. 

The following article, from the Charlotte /Vews, is an able 
sketch of Colonel Lowe that portrays his life and characteris- 
tics in a most able manner: 

““Nowadays we often hear the expression, ‘What is our 
State coming to?’ Aslong as men of brains and ability are 
at the helm, our State is safe, and under their guidance we 
need not fear for its welfare. Among those brainy men none 
have shown more distinguished qualities or aptitude to partici- 
pate in the proper government of the Old North State than 
the subject of this sketch, Hon. David Alexander Lowe, Sena- 
tor-elect of the Twenty-ninth Senatorial District. Ripe in age 
and experience, a man of and for the people, he will in his 
quiet, determined way guard closely the interests of North 
Carolina. Probably no man in the State Senate is better 
known than this popular gentleman. 
Lincoln County May 9, 1825. He received a liberal education 
at the old-field schools, and then turned his attention to agri- 
cultural pursuits. In 1852 he was married, and subsequently 
embarked in the tannery business. This he followed until 
after the war, when he engaged in farming and mercantile 
business. Mr. Lowe resides at Lowesville, a place named for 
him, and situated in Lincoln County. Lowesville is a beauti- 
ful village, and reflects great credit upon its founder. Senator 
Lowe has held a number of positions of trust and honor. For 
forty years he has been a Justice of the Peace of Catawba 


Mr. Lowe was born in 


Springs Township. In 1847 he was appointed Colonel of Mili- 
tia of the State, and held that position up to 1854. About 1868 
he was appointed Postmaster at Lowesville, and held that po- 
sition four or five years. It may here be stated that this post- 
office has been in Col. Lowe’s family until during Harrison’s 
administration. Col. Lowe is an ardent Democrat—a habit he 
acquired a good many years ago—a habit he proposes to keep 
until his demise. Last November Col. Lowe made the race as 
the Democratic nominee for the State Senatorship from the 
Twenty-ninth Senatorial District, embracing the counties of 
Lincoln, Catawba, Alexander and Wilkes. With a Republican 
majority of 1,600 staring him in the face, he went to work to 
accomplish the herculean task of being elected. This was ac- 
complished, and Col. Lowe not only overcame the adverse ma- 
jority, but succeeded in securing twenty-two votes more than 
his competitor. His popularity is great, and his friends legion; 
in fact, being only limited by the number of his acquaintances. 
Col. Lowe has a large mercantile establishment at Lowesville, 
where he handles and carries everything procurable under the 
sun. He has large agricultural interests, and raises from ninety 
to one hundred bales of cotton aunually. 

‘‘Tn concluding the sketch of this well-known and highly 
respected gentleman, it may well be said that he is a self-made 
man who has come to the front by his own efforts, and al- 
though ripe in years, he is hale and hearty, and will live many 
years to serve the Old North State.”’ 


SENATOR F. A. WHITAKER. 


When the people of Wake County elected this able and suc- 
cessful farmer to represent them and the Democratic Party in 
the State Senate, their choice fell on a man who is an honor to 
the State of North Carolina. 


Photo. by Michelow, 
SENATOR F. A. WHITAKER. 


Senator Whitaker was born near Raleigh, N. C., in 1840. He 
was educated at Wake Academy. His life has been spent prin- 
cipally on a farm, and he is to-day one of the most successful 
and influential farmers in the State. He has always been a true 
Democrat, and was for six years a magistrate in his township ; 


32 NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 


he has also held a good many important positions of trust and 
responsibility and enjoys the confidence and respect of all who 
know him. As a Senator he has, by his able and intelligent 
efforts, added new laurels to his crown. He is a member of 
the following important committees: Public Buildings and 
Grounds, Finance, Agriculture, Internal Improvements, Insane 
Asylums, Military Affairs, Library, and is Chairman of the 
Committee on Enrolled Bills. On these committees Senator 
Whitaker has done faithful and effective work. 

The Democratic Party is proud to recognize the ability and 
services of such an efficient gentleman. 

Senator Whitaker is one of Wake County’s leading and suc- 
cessful farmers, and is a hard worker for the best interests of 
the farmer. He is a man who commands the love and respect 
of all who know him. He is at all times ready to help the 
needy and poor. As a member of the present General Assem- 
bly he has legislated for the best interests of the people and 
the Democratic Party. 

He is a gentleman who is popular with the agricultural and 
business men of Wake County, aniong whom he has many 
warm personal friends. There are few meu in the county who 
do not know and honor this able Senator. 


SENATOR FRANK I. OSBORNE. 


To write a sketch of Hon. Frank I. Osborne, one of the fore- 
most lawyers practicing in the courts of the State, is to write a 
lesson that ought to truly be an inspiration to those deserving 
young men who are beginning to battle with fate. We learn 
of the results of energy, of close application and of self reliance. 
In the law he who would wear the ‘‘Golden Spurs”? must win 


Photo. by Wharton. 
SENATOR FRANK I. OSBORNE, 


them by sheer merit, and this Mr. Osborne has done. He 
is a North Carolinian by birth and first saw the light of dawn 
at Charlotte, May, 1853. He springs from an old and distin- 
guished family, who has resided in this section 160 years. His 
father, the late Judge James W. Osborne, was one of the most 


distinguished jurists and orators in the State, and was Judge of 
the Superior Court. Our subject’s boyhood days were passed 
in securing an education, obtained at Davidson College from 
which he graduated in 1872, and subsequently at the University 
of Virginia. Upon completing his education he began the 
study of law under Judge Pearson, then Chief Justice of the 
State, and continued reading under that gentleman for a period 
of two years. In 1875 he was admitted to the bar, and at once 
engaged actively in the practice of his chosen profession. At 
the age of twenty-five Mr. Osborne was ,Mayor of Charlotte. 
At the age of twenty-nine he was elected Solicitor of this dis- 
trict, and so faithfully and well did he discharge the duties of 
that position that he was three times elected without opposi- 
tion, serving in that capacity for ten years, when he resigned 
to accept the office of Attorney-General of the State, to which 
he was elected in 1892. His record in that position needs no 
enconium from our pen, it is an open book. Subsequent to 
the expiration of his term of office he was again nominated for 
the position, and although leading the executive ticket, went 
down in the defeat of the Democratic Party by the fusionists 
in 1596. 

In 1898 Mr, Osborne was nominated for the position of State 
Senator of the Twenty-fifth Senatorial District, and was elected 
by a large majority. In politics he is au ardent believer in the 
principles of Democracy, and has always fought for their main- 
tenance. During his career he has been closely identified with 
the political workings of his party in this section. Mr. Os- 
borne is a member of the well-known and successful law firm 
of Osborne, Maxwell and Keerans. As an attorney his name 
is high up on the scroll of distinguished lawyers of the Old 
North State. He is peculiarly gifted as a speaker and eluci- 
dates his theme in a clear and concise manner, using little or 
no unnecessary verbiage, clothing his remarks in beautiful 
English. 

Mr. Osborne is married, has four children. Asa citizen he 
is always ready to devote both time and means to the upbuild- 
ing of North Carolina. 


Frank in expression, courteous in demeanor, and polished in 
mind, he wields in influence of rare magic character. Mr. Os- 
borne is yet in the boyhood of rich, mental activity, with the 
promise of many years of public usefulness. 


Mr. C. R. Hoky, who represents the county of Cleve- 
land, is the youngest member of the House, being only 21 
years of age. He was born at Shelby, in Cleveland County, 
and was edacated at private schools and at Bell’s Military 
Institute. He is an.able and influential Democrat, and is pub- 
lisher of the Cleveland Star. He has been Trustee of the 
Graded Schools of his county, and is quite popular with the 
people he represents. He was elected by a majority of 835 
votes. 


J. FRANK Ray, ‘the gentleman from Macon,” is one of 
the “‘war-horses’’ of the Democratic Party. He hails from* 
Franklin, near where he was born 41 years ago. -He received 
his education at the academies of his county, and at an early 
age began the study of law, and after being admitted to the 
bar, he became an active and leading politician, and a leader 
of the party in his section. In ’8r he was elected to the 
Lower House of the General Assembly. So well did he rep- 
resent the views of his constituents that he was re-elected 
in ’83, ’91, ’93, 95. In ’96 he was elected to the Senate, and 
in ’98 he was again returned as a member of the House. 
He is an able and forcible speaker, and a man who is a credit 
to Democracy. 


NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 33 


CAPT. J Bsa sMITH: 


One of the most popular gentlemen connected with the Gen- 
eral Assembly of 1899, is the gentleman whose name heads 
this sketch—that distinguished Confederate soldier, Capt. J. 
B. Smith of Fayetteville, N. C., the Sergeant-at-Arms of the 
Senate. 

Captain Smith was born in Raleigh, N. C., in 1838. 
in his younger days a marble cutter. 

On the commencement of the war between the North and 
the South he was one of the first men to volunteer in the Con- 
federate service, and enlisted in the First North Carolina Reg- 
iment. He was at all times a gallant soldier and had the honor 
of capturing the only prisoner captured at the famous Bethel 
fight. Captain Smith was, shortly after this fight, transferred 
to Starr’s Battery, where he made a splendid record for himself 
and fought nobly for the Confederate cause. 


He was 


Photo, by Wharton 


CAPT. J. B. SMITH. 


After the war he went to Fayetteville, and began to take an 
active interest in the upbuilding of the State and in politics. 
He was for four years post-master at Fayetteville; was Sheriff 
of Cumberland County for eight years, and in the recent cam- 
paign he followed up his grand old record by making a strong 
and brilliant fight in the interest of White Supremacy, his ser- 
vices were recognized by his party, and he was elected Ser- 
geant-at-Arms of the Senate, which position he has filled in 
that courteous and dignified manner that so well becomes the 
old Confederate veteran. He is popular with all members of 
the Senate, as well as with the people of Raleigh, anong whom 
he has many distinguished friends. 


J. E. HENDERSON, one of the Representatives from Meck- 
lenburg County, is a farmer and a staunch Democrat, He was 
born about six miles from Mint Hill, in Mecklenburg County. 
He received his education at the common schools of the 
county and at Mint Hill Academy. He was elected to the 
Legislature by a majority of 1,700 votes. 


THE FALL OF THE CURTAIN. 


The historical Legislature of 1899 ended Wednesday, March 
8, at noon, and I do not know how I can portray the workings 
of that body in a more complete and effective manner than by 
using the closing address made by Hon. H. G. Connor, Speaker 
of the House of Representatives, which is a story in itself. 
He said : 

““ Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : 


‘‘This General assembly met sixty-four days ago, charged 
by the people of the State with a commission, the terms and 
meaning of which were clear and unmistakable. The political 
conditions which have existed among us had terminated in what 
might not inaptly be termed a political revolution in the State. 
The election of November, 1898, was the emphatic expression 
of a fixed determination of the people of North Carolina that 
the peace and welfare of the State for the future demanded 
heroic treatment on the suffrage question. Every member of 
the majority of this General Assembly entered upon the duties 
of the session with a recognition of this fact, and a determi- 
nation to perform this duty. There were, of course, differences 
of opinion in regard to the wisest and best manner of dealing 
with the question. These differences have been discussed 
fully, and mutual concessions have been made, and after long 
and laborious efforts, the intensity of which will never be 
known, save by those who engaged in them, a common position 
was reached, resulting in the proposed amendment to the Con- 
stitution. That it is not perfect none better know or appreci- 
ate more fully than ourselves. That it is the best possible out- 
come of the situation we believe to be true. We also believe 
that it is the basis upon which we may be able to build a safe, 
stable and intelligent system of suffrage in this State. Wesub- 
mit it to the people for their ratification. Many other impor- 
tant and perplexing questions commanded our attention. The 
care for the State institutions, 
penal, have received our best attention, and we feel sure that 
those selected for their control and management will measure 
up tu the highest standard of competency and fidelity. No 


educational, charitable and 


man has been elected by this General Assembly to any posi- 
tion of honor or trust for which the people of the State or of 
the Democratic Party will find occasion for apology. 
entitled to no great credit for this, because from the number 


We are 


of good citizeus whose names were piescnted to us for these 
positions we could not have well done otherwise. 4 
‘‘The much vexed question of providing bv law for cars for 
the races was much more complex and difficult to deal with 
than the average citizen thought. We trust that the people 
will accept the result arrived at as the basis for something 
For the first 
time in our history the two Houses of the General Assembly 
in joint session have been called upon to exercise judicial 
functions in hearing evidence and passing upon the removaal 
of public officers. The terms of the law under which we pro- 
ceeded were far from clear, and the procedure new and un- 
tried. That the members were discharging judicial duties 
involving the determination of questions of law and fact was 
conceded by all. That in the discharge of these duties each 
member acted in the capacity of judge and juror, and was 
required upon his oath aud his honor to return a true ver- 
dict and judgment is equally clear. Whatever the citizens 
of the State may think of the result arrived at, it is clear 
that the principle usually and properly controlling the rep- 
resentatives of the people, making it their duty to give ex- 
pression to the will of their constituency, could not control 
in this matter; that the imposition of such duties upon the 
Legislature is unwise, and contrary to the fundamental prin- 
ciples of our form of government, which provides for the 


more satisfactory after two years’ experience. 


34. NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 


separation of the legislative, executive and judicial functions, 
is admitted, and we have removed the provisions therefor 
from our statute-books. 

“In dealing with the finances of the State we have en- 
deavored to be conservative and economical. That there is 
among our people an industrial awakening is shown by the 
large number of charters for such enterprises we have been 
called upon to enact into law. It is a matter well worth 
careful consideration whether there should not be an im- 
provement in the general law providing for the incorporation 
of private companies and associations, thereby saving much 
time which should be devoted to the consideration of pub- 
lic measures. The large number of charters for cities and 
towns sent to us from different sections of the State show a 
healthy interest in regard to the people and the problem 
of municipal government. 

“There is no more interesting method of studying the his- 
tory and development of a people than through their laws, and 
and there will be few more interesting chapters in our history 
than the Public and Private Laws of 1899. That much has 
been done for the welfare of the State, the most critical will 
admit. That much has been left undone, we recognize and 
admit. 

“As the presiding officer of this House [ have had oppor- 
tunity to witch with care the words and actions of its mem- 
bers. I have seen nothing said or done which did not proceed 
from an honest desire to advauce the best interests of the 
State. 

‘“We commit our work to the fair and just consideration of 
the constituency who confiled to us their highest and best po- 
litical interests. We must, however, ever keep in mind the 
great truths that States, like individuals, are in the keeping 
of the God of nations, and in so far as we live in harmony 
with this divine will we will, in our individual as well as na- 
tional interest, grow in strength and prosperity. It affords me 
pleasure in this last hour of the session to say that in the dis- 
charge of the duties of presiding officer I have had the kind, 
considerate support of every member of this body. No un- 
There 
has at all times prevailed deference and courtesy among the 
[am sure that without regard to party or po- 


pleasant incident mars the memory of our association. 


the members. 
litical differences, we separate with naught but kindly sentt- 
ments one to the other. The attendance has been unusually 
good. A number of the members have been detained from the 
Honse by sickness, aud it pains us to note that one of our 
number lies at death's door. For the last time in the nine- 
teenth fcentury the General Assembly of North Carolina has 
met and is now ready to adjourn. For reasons deemed wise 
to us we have, as the Constitution provides we may do, de- 
termined to adjourn to a day certain. In accordance there- 
fore with the joint resolution of the two Houses, I do hereby 
declare this House adjourned to the fifth day of June, I900.’’ 


R. M. RANson, of Mecklenburg County, was born in An- 
derson County, S. C., 46 years ago. He was educated at 
private schools. He is a farmer by occupation, and was 
elected to the Legislature in 1897, but was unseated by the 
Fusionists. In 1898 he was again nominated by his party, 
and elected by a majority of 1,702 votes. 


D. J. Ray, of Cumberland County, is 56 years old. He is 
a farmer by occupation. He was born at Endor, in Cum- 
berland County, and received his education at private schools. 
He was oue of the first Democratic judges at the polls after 
the war. He has been a magistrate, School Commissioner 
and Supervisor in his county. He was elected to the Leg- 
islature by a majority of 250 votes. 


HON. H. G. CONNOR. 


This dignified and courteous statesman is the leader of the 
Democratic Party in the House of Representatives. Judge 
Connor was born at Wilmington, N. C., 46 years ago. He was 
educated at the public schools of that city. At an early age 
he began the study of law, and to-day there are few lawyers 
in the State who equal this able jurist and statesman in knowl- 
edge of law and legal practice. He is one of the representa- 
tive lawyers of Wilson, N. C., where he has a large and lucra- 
tive practice. He is a conservative Democrat, believing ar- 
dently that upon the ultimate triumph of the principles of 
political economy, and that from the Democratic faith, depends 
the preservation of the government and the protection of the 
rights, liberties and happiness of the people. He has remained 
ever true to these principles. He possesses a singularly clear, 
vigorous and comprehensive mind, dominated by a spirit prone 
to accept nothing upon mere authority. 


Photo. by Wharton. 


HON. H. G. CONNOR, SPEAKER HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 


His love for the true and beautiful in mau and nature has 
acquired an intensity and depth unknown to those who are 
strangers to this clear and fearless cast of unshadowed, haunted 
thought. 

Judge Connor is beloved by the Democratic Party. He was 
State Senator in 1685, and was Judge of the Superior Court 
from 1885 to 1893. At the beginning of the campaign of 1898 
he was chosen by his people to be their standard-bearer, and 
was elected to represent the people of Wilson County by a 
majority of 561 votes. 

On the formation of the House of Representatives Judge 
Connor’s friends put him in nomination for the Speakership 
of the House. He was warmly supported, and was elected 
over Hon. Lee S. Overman and Hon. Locke Craig. Asa pre- 
siding officer he is unsurpassable, and presides with a dignity 
and courteousness that commands the admiration and wins the 
love of all. Judge Connor is an able speaker; his thorough 
knowledge of parliamentary law makes him a popular presid- 
ing officer, his judgment being quick and reliable. Heis a 
favorite with the members of the House irrespective of their 


political faith. He is one of North Carolina’s strongest, truest 
and ablest Democratic statesmen, 


NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 35 


HON. LEE S. OVERMAN 


Was born in Salisbury, N. C., January 3, 1854, and is to-day 
one of North Carolina’s most distinguished statesmen. He 
graduated with high honors from Trinity College in 1874, and 
two years later his A/ma Mater conferred upon him the degree 
of A.M. After his graduation he began the study of law, and 
was admitted to the bar in 1878. He has since his early youth 
been an active leader in politics, and has taken an active inter- 
est in every campaign since 1876. In 1876 his able ability was 
so appreciated by Governor Vance that he appointed Mr. Over- 
man his Private Secretary. He held this position with honor 
aud credit to Governor Vance, his State and himself for three 
years, when he resigned to resume the practice of his chosen 
profession. 


Photo. by Wharton. 
HON, 


LEE S. 


OVERMAN. 


Mr. Overman has always been recognized as a leader in the 
Democratic Party, and in 1882 he was elected to the Legisla- 
ture from Rowan County; was re-elected in ’84 and ’86, and 
declined a re-nomination in ‘88. 
and his popularity was recognized by his being elected Speaker 
of the House. As a presiding officer he won the confidence 
and respect of his friends, and presided in a most able man- 
ner. He has held many important positions in the ranks of 
Demiocracy— was a member of the Board of Directors of the 
North Carolina Railroad. His ability was again recognized in 
a most appreciative manner, and he was elected President of the 
road. 

In 1895 be was nominated by the Democratic Caucus for United 
States Senator. In 1895 Mr. Overman was called upon hy his 
people to represent them, and aid in winning the grand battle 
for ‘‘ White Supremacy.’’ He accepted the nomination at a 
great financial sacrifice, and was elected by a majority of about 
1,500 votes. 

No man in the State at the bar ranks higher in ability and 
professional success. Some of the most important casesin the 
courts of this State have been conducted by Mr. Overman, and 
the result has invariably been favorable to his side of the case. 


In 1893 he was again elected, 


His rare executive power, liberal and general culture, pre- 
eminently qualify him for the law. When he enters the legal 
lists he is like a knight of old, armed cap-a-pie, with lance at 
rest and visor thrown down, tilting at every opening of his ad- 
versay; prompt to see and take advantage of the weak point 
in the evidence which his astute legal mind and searching in- 
terrogatory, making wider the opening, until it yields to his 
vindication of outraged law. As a speaker he is clear and con- 
cise, and at times, yielding to the influence of the theme in 
question, his whole soul is thrown into words, and the beauti- 
ful bursts of oratory enchant and hold spell-bound the court, 
jury and spectators. His versatility always enables him to 
indentify himself thoroughly with his cause. In civil litiga- 
tion he is even more successful, and his exhaustive research 
and untiring efforts on behalf of his clients’ cause are the 
principal reasons for his extensive civil practice. 

Mr. Overman is a Democrat, and has always fought for the 
principles of his party, believing them to be just and honor- 
able. He is an able and ideal leader in the political arena of 
North Carolina. 


HON. S. L. PATTERSON. 


A distinguished member of the North Carolina House of 
Representatives is the Hon. S. L. Patterson, who represents 
the county of Caldwell. He was born at Yadkin Valley, in 
Caldwell County, 48 years ago, and is a representative farmer 
and law-maker of the grand old State of North Carolina. He 
is a graduate with high honors of the University of North Car- 
olina, and is one of our State’s most able Democrats He has 
enjoyed the honors of his party in many ways during his ca- 
reer as a public man. He was County Commissioner of Cald- 
well County; was District Superintendent of Census in 1880; 


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Photo. by Wharton, 


HON. S. L., PATTERSON. 


was a member of the House of Representatives in 1891, anda 
member of the State Senate in 1893. He was Commissioner 
of the State Agricultural Department from 1895 to 1897, and 
filled the position with much honor and credit to the Dem- 


36 NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 


ocratic Party and himself. He is an able farmer, and thor- 
oughly understands the many branches of agricultural work- 
ings, and makes an able representative for the farmer and for 
the State. 

In 1898, at the solicitation of his friends, he accepted the 
nomination for the Legislature, and was elected by a major- 
ity of 557 votes, bringing the ‘‘ White Supremacy’? flag glori- 
ously to the front. 

Mr. Patterson’s familiarity with legislative workings makes 
him an able and influential law-maker. He is a man who 
has ever before him the best interests of the people of North 
Carolina. Being a man of pleasant and courteous manner, 
who is a strong believer of the future of North Carolina, a 
brilliant worker and able member of the Democratic Party, 
itis not strange that he is so popular with all who know 
him. He is a leading spirit in the House, and is a member 
of the most important committees, upon which he does active 
work. Such mien are naturally able statesmen, with much in- 
fluence and a large following, and reflect honor on the Dem- 
ocratic Party. 

Mr. Patterson was elected Commissioner of Agriculture by 
the Democrats, which position is not new to him. He has 
filled it with honor and distinction. We congratulate the 
members of the General Assembly on their wise selection. 


HON. B. B. NICHOLSON. 


At the bar of North Carolina courts there are many who, by 
their talent and knowledge of their profession, have gained 
prominence in its ranks. Among this class of able lawyers it 
gives me pleasure to mention my friend, Hon. B. B. Nicholson, 
representative of Beaufort county, in the House of Represen- 
tatives. This distinguished young statesman was born in 


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HON. B. B. NICHOLSON. 


Warren County, At an early age he moved to Washington, 
Beaufort County, where he began the study of law. He re- 
ceived a liberal education and graduated with high honors 
from Trinity College, after which he graduated in law at the 


University of Virginia. After this he taught law school at 
Trinity College with Judge Avery, and in this position he 
gained much honor and won the high regard of his associates 
and the students- He is now a member of the Board of Trus- 
tees of Trinity College. He is an active practitioner of law at 
Washington, in Beaufort County, and has never sought a pub- 
lic position before, although at all times keeping posted on the 
political happenings of his State and being in touch with the 
Democratic party. At the solicitation of his friends and party 
leaders he accepted the nomination for the Legislature in 1898, 
and entered the race strictly in the interest of ‘‘White Supre- 
macy.’’ He made a brilliant fight, and at the beginning or- 
ganized his forces in a thorough manner and won the victory 
by a majority of 400 votes, overcoming a majority two years 
previous of 608 votes. 

As a member of.the House, Mr. Nicholson has taken an ac- 


tive interest in everything that was for the best interest of the ~ 


Democratic party. He helped draft the Constitutional amend- 
ment, the school law and other important bills. 

He has taken an active interest in the oyster interests and 
has introduced important bills and worked for their interests 
most faithfully. 

He is thoroughly acquainted with the needs of the country, 
and has always been found advocating the best interests of 
his State and people, Plain and outspoken in his views, he 
has made many friends. Beyond a doubt, the county of Beau- 
fort has never been so well represented in the Legislature be- 
fore. 

Mr. Nicholson is popular with all who know him, and he 
has brilliant possibilities. A representative and distinguished 
Democrat, what honors are too great for him? 


C. T. WILLIAMS, representing the county of Dare, was born 
at Avon 32 years ago. He is a merchant, and was Postmaster 
at Avon for two terms. He is an ardent Democrat, and was 
elected to represent his county in the Lower House of the 
General Assembly by a majority of 61 votes. 


WILLIAM MAITLAND, who represents the county of Tyr- 
rell, was born at Columbia 48 years ago. He is a farmer, 
and received his education at the public schools of his county. 
After receiving the nomination by the Democratic Party, he 
entered the race to win, and after a hotly contested fight, 
was elected to the Legislature by a majority of 7 votes. 


T. J. WILLIAMS, representing the county of Iredell, was 
born in Mecklenburg County. He is by occupation a farmer, 
and is interested“in the milling business. He was educated 
at the public schools, and has always been a staunch Dem- 
ocrat. He has represented his county in the Legislature be- 
fore, being a member in 1891. He was elected in '98 by a 
majority of 726 votes. 


W. P. WHITE, of Halifax County, is an able and repre- 
sentative young Democrat, who enjoys the confidence of the 
party. He was born in Halifax County 38 years ago, and 
has been for several years Mayor of the town of Hobgood. 
He was educated at Wake Forest College. He has been for 
many years engaged in the lumber business. He was elected 
to represent his party by a majority of 1,400 votes. 


HECTOR MCLEAN, who represents the county of Richmond, 
is a progressive farmer, 45 years old. He was born in Robe- 
son County, and received his education at private schools of 
his county. He is a Democrat who enjoys the respect of 
his friends and constituents, and was elected to the Lower 
House of the General Assembly by a majority vote of 1,000. 


NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 37 


HON. FRANK THOMPSON. 


The subject of our sketch is one of the most able and influ- 
ential Democrats in Eastern North Carolina. He was born in 
Onslow County 41 years ago, and is to-day one of the Old 
North State’s most able Representatives, representing the 
county of Ouslow. He is a prominent and able lawyer at 
Jacksonville, the county seat of Onslow County, where he en- 
joys a large and lucrative practice. 
dolph-Macon College, in Virginia. 


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HON. FRANK THOMPSON. 


Mr. Thomipson did not take an active part in politics until 
1892. During that campaign he hecame interested in the is- 
sues, andin an able manuer he led the straight Democratic 
ticket, when the Alliance tried to capture the State. Since 
that time, at the earnest solicitation of the Democrats of his 


county he has become their recognized leader. A forcible and 
eloquent speaker, as well as a thorough organizer, he has 
done much to advance the interests of the party, and has been 
honored with positions of trust and responsibility. He was 
County Superintendent of Public Instruction and Chairman of 
the County Board of Education. He was nominated three 
different times for the State Senate, but each time declined, 
on account of his health. He was a candidate for Congress in 
the Third Congressional District in 1896, and was defeated by 
asmall majority. In 1898 he led his party to victory, and es- 
tablished ‘‘ White Supremacy ” in the county of Onslow, and 
was elected by a handsome majority. In the present Legisla- 
ture he introduced some important bills, among which was 
a bill entitled ‘An act to raise additional revenue for the 
State by levying agraduated tax on the gross earnings of quasi- 
public corporations.” Also ‘‘A bill to establish a Tax Com- 
mission,’’ which establishes a committee to investigate all sub- 
jects of taxation and present same to the next General Assem- 
bly, looking to the equalization of taxes. 

Mr. Thompson is a member of the following important com- 
mittees: Judiciary, Education, Corporations, Finance, Fish 
and Oyster; is Chairman of the Committee on Pensions and 
Soldiers’ Home. 

Mr. Thompson is a lawyer of exceptionally fine ability, and 
a man who, in his broad minded liberality, wins the con fidence 
and esteem of those who meet him. He is popular with the 
members of the House of Representatives, and is an entertain- 
ing and influential statesman, who has the high regard of his 
party. He is a gentleman witha varied and interesting history. 


HON. R. L. LEATHERWOOD 


Is in the prime the prime of life, vigor and manhood, being 
Mens sano in corpore sanum, and on this account is well fitted 
to successfully enter the legal arena with any competitor. All 
men who achieve eminence in any pursuit are largely self- 
taught, whatever their earlier advantages have been. 

Mr. Leatherwood was born in Cherokee County 36 years ago 
and was educated in the public schools and at the High School 
at Hayesville, N. C. He was licensed to practice law in 1884, 


and located immediately after at Charleston, near Bryson City, 
and was employed as Attorney for the Board of County Com- 
missioners, which position he has held for fourteen years. He 
was appointed by Mr. Cleveland as Agent and Attorney for 
the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in 1886, which position 
he held for four years. He was President of the Congressional 
Convention which nominated Hon. W. T. Crawford to Con- 
gress to succeed Hon. H.G Ewart. He was elected to the 
State Senate in 1892. He was nominated for the House of 
Representatives and was elected over two strong opponents. 

Mr. Leatherwood is a member of the following important 
committees: The Judiciary, Privileges and Elections; Federal 
Relations; Immigration; Propositions and Grievances, etc. 

He has a large practice, and stands in the front rank of the 
legal profession of North Carolina. He has appeared before 
the State and United States Courts in a number of prominent 
and successful cases. He is practically a self-made man, a 
good speaker, and one of the most pleasant members of the 
House of Representatives. Mr. Leatherwood in politics is a 
Democrat and he has at all times before him the best interests 
of his party. He has every element of a lawyer, is a close stu- 
dent and investigator, and gives his entire time to his profes- 
sion. 


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Mr. Leatherwood, as a member of the Legislature has not 
only added new laurels to his already splendid reputation asa 
statesman, but has added much to the credit of the Democratic 
Party and to himself. He watches the best interests of his 
constituents at all times, and is always prompt to lend his aid 
and offer his voice up in support of any measure that will ben- 
efit his county and the State of North Carolina. When the 
people of Swain County selected Mr. Leatherwood as their 
representative their choice was a wise one. He has done ex- 
actly what they wanted him to do, and has conducted himself 
in a manner which reflects to the credit of himself, his county 
and his State. His future has a bright outlook, and I wish 
him much continued success. 


NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 


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HON. H. A. GILLIAM. HON. 8S. M. GATTIS. 


HON. H. A. 


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E.jJ. JUSTICE. 


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HON. W. R. ALLEN. 


One of the most able and influential members of the House 
of Representatives, is that diatinguished member from Wayne, 
Judge W. R. Allen. He was born at Kenansville, Duplin 
County, 39 vears ago. Was educated at Trinity College. He 
is to-day one of the best known and most successful lawyers 
in North Carolina, having been connected with nearly every 
important case in Eastern North Carolina during the past fif- 
teen years. In the city of Goldsboro, where he resides, he 
enjoys a large and lucrative practice, and is beloved by the 
people who know him. He has always been a standard-bearer 
of the Democratic Party. Was a member of the Legislature in 
1893. In 1894 he was appointed Judge of the Fourth Judicial 
District, which position he held until January 1, 1895 He was 
nominated on the ticket which was defeated by the Fusionist 
in 1894. He is Chairman of the Board of Education of Wayne 
County. 

When the great question of ‘‘ White Supremacy’’ began agi- 
tating the minds of the people in 1898, he, being an active 
leader in the Democratic ranks of his county, accepted the 

nomination for the Legislature, and was elected by a majority 
- of about 1,100 votes, overcoming a big Fusion majority of two 
years previous. 

Judge Allen is Chairman of the Committee on Railroads and 
Railroad Commiission, is a memiber of the Judiciary, Constitu- 
tional Amendment and Rules committees. 

He has introduced a number of very important bills, among 
which was a bill providing for the election of the Commis- 
sioner of Agriculture by the people, and the reorganization of 
that department. Also a bill for the reorganization of the Rail- 
road Commission, which incorporates the duties of Banking, 
Insurance and Building and Loan with that of the Railroad 
Commission, and to provide for the election of the Commission- 
ers by the people. 

Judge Allen is a very prominent member of the House, and 
when he arises to discuss legislative questions that come before 
him, receives the careful attention of the members. He is a 
gentleman who commands the respect and friendship, not only 
of the Democratic members of the House, but of his political 
opponents as weil. He is a man who is an honor to the grand 
old Democratic Party. 


HON. H. McD. ROBINSON. 


This able and influential law-maker was born 38 years ago in 
Fayetteville, Cumberland County. He received a liberal edu- 
cation at Bingham’s School, where he was first honor man for 
four yeas, after which he attended several years at the Uni- 
versity of Virginia, taking part of the literary and legal 
courses. He is by profession a lawyer and descends from a 
family of talented politicians and is a recognized leader in the 
Democratic Party. He is an able and fluent speaker, and his 
voice is frequently heard in the halls of the House of Repre- 
sentatives in eloquent appeal in behalf of the best interests of 
his constituents and his party, and when he takes sides ou any 
question he presents his views to his hearers in a clear and 
concise manner- 

Mr. Robinson stands high with the people of Cumberland 
County, and has been honored with positions of trust and re- 
sponsibility. He was for five years County Superintendent of 
Public Instruction of Cumberland County, and since May, 
1893, has been and is now City Attorney of Fayetteville. Heis 
a hard worker for the Democratic Party and made a gallant 
fight for ‘‘ White Supremacy” in 1898, overcoming a large Re- 
publican majority. He is now in politics from a sense of duty, 
and was in no sense of the word a candidate for the nomina- 


tion to the House of Representatives, but at the repeated so- 
licitations of many friends he entered the field and bore the 
standard of Democracy to victory. He has been pressed by 
his friend for the nomination as Judge of the Seventh District. 
He has a splendid law practice and is one of Fayetteville’s 
most representative citizens. 

He has introduced the following bills: To amend the char- 
ter of Fayetteville; authorizing Fayetteville to issue bonds, 
etc.; amending and improving the Cumberland County Dis 
pensary Law, and as amended to be submitted to a vote of the 
people; a public road law for Cumberland County; extending 
time for building the Fayetteville and Albemarle Railroad, 
and other small bills for the best interests of his constituents, 
his county, and the State of North Carolina. 

As a member of the following important committees he has 
performed and attended to the duties of same in a most effect- 
The Judiciary; Constitutional Amendments; 
Chairman of the Library Committee, and member of the Com 
mittee on Claims, Railroad and Railroad Commission, and 
Education. 


ive manner: 


Personally, Mr. Robinson is a gentleman of pleasant and 
He is a man who is thoroughly versed 
in the many important parliamentary problems and is one of 
the most able members of the General Assembly of North 
Carolina. 


entertaining manner. 


DR. D. B. McNEILL. 


A gentleman of dignified mein and of intelligent appear- 
ance is Dr. D. B. McNeill, known on the floor of the House of 
Representatives as ‘‘the gentleman from Brunswick.” He is 
46 years of age. 

Dr. McNeill was born at Rockingham, where he spent his 
childhood days. He was educated at the public academies. 
At an early age he began the study of medicine, reading under 
such distinguished medical men as Dr. Hector McLean. He 
graduated first at Edenboro Medical College, after which he 
attended the well-known Charleston Medical College, at 
Charleston, S. C., which is one of the best medical colleges in 
the State. Dr. McNeill is an active practitioner, and one of 
the State’s leading physicians. He has always taken an active 
interest in politics, and is a recognized leader of the Demo- 
cratic Party in his section of the State. He has been Chair- 
man of the County Democratic Executive Committee of Bruns 
wick County, was a member of the House of Representatives 
in 1885, and was re-elected in 1898 by a majority of 75 votes. 

Dr. McNeil] is an energetic worker, with much influence in 
the House, and did much toward winning the magnificent vic- 


tory of 1898 fur ‘‘ White Supremacy. He is a member of 
several of the more important committees, and makes an able 
representative of his county. 

Dr. McNeill is an able talker as well as an eloquent speaker. 
He is a physician by profession, and a statesman from the 
natural choice of his people. He is a man of exceptionally 
fine ability, and is a man who, in his broad-minded liberality, 
wins the confidence and esteem of all who come in contact 
with him. 

It is with pleasure that I congratulate this distinguished 
‘gentleman from Brunswick’? upon the able aud influential 
representation he has made for his county and the people of 
North Carolina. 


A. A. Lyon represents the county of Granville. He was 
born in Granville County 47 years ago. By occupation he isa 
farmer. He was educated at private schools. He is a Demo- 
crat who has the respect of his party, and was elected to rep- 
resent it in the Lower House of the General Assembly by a 


majority of 49 votes. 


NORTH CAROLINA 


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CAPT. W. W. CARRAWAY, 


STATESMEN. 


HON. W. R. ALLEN, 


HON. D. B. M’NEILL. 


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CAPT. W. W. CARRAWAY. 


The Representative from Lenoir County is one of the best- 
known members of the House. His large frame and splendid 
physique arrest attention, while his genial bearing and sterling 
worth make hima general favorite. He was born at Monti- 
cello Farm, in Contentnea Neck District, now in Vance 
Township, Lenoir County, on the 15th day of April, 1838, and 
occupies the same house and sleeps in the same room he was 
born in. He and the Senator from Lenoir, Hon. J. Q. Jackson, 
were boys together, and they were taught their ABC's at 
Airy Grove Academy, in Contentnea Neck District, an acad- 
emy whose teachers have all proved to be men of mark and of 
high ability and character, such as Rev. Merriweather Win- 
ston; Judge William B. Council, of Florida; Judge W. A. 
Strong, of Missouri, and Dr. Charles O’Hagan, of Greenville. 

Capt. Carraway was prepared for college by that greatest of 
educators, W. J. Bingham, of The Oaks, Orange County, and 
he finished his education at the University of Virginia. When 
the mutterings of the war were heard the young collegiate, 
obedient to his patriotic impulses, enlisted as a soldier and 
became Captain of Company KE, Third North Carolina Cavalry. 
Being then in affluent circumstances he furnished a part of the 
horses necessary for his company, generously allowing the 
men to draw pay for the horses so furnished them. His ser- 
vice during the entire war was entirely acceptable to his com- 
manding officers. He always bore himself courageously and 
faithfully performed every duty, and won the respect and es- 
teem of all who were in contact with him. Inthe last months 
of the war, he, along with Major John O’Connor, Capt. Joseph 
Price, Major Warren Barrett, Sam Spock and Turner May, was 
in special service as scouts within the enemy’s line. When 
peace came he returned to the farm, and in additiou to farm- 
ing he became a merchant, and for a while commanded the 
steamer Caswell,plying on the Neuse between Newbern and 
Kinston. Fond of writing, he had often contributed to the 
press under the name of D. R. Walker, and in 1879 he became 
a staff correspondent and solicitor for the Observer, then owned 
by Capt. S. A. Ashe, and continued with it and the Mews and 
Observer until 1886. He reported the debates between Jarvis 
and Buxton in 1880, and between Scales and York in 1884, and 
attended Vance and Ransom and other distinguished cam- 
paigners in many campaigns, this special work carrying him 
time and again to every county in the State, where, because of 
his excellent reports and fine personality, he received consid- 
eration but little less than was accorded to the distinguished 
speakers themselves. 

At the instance of that grand Roman and soldier and states- 
man, Senator Matt. W. Ransom, in 1886, during Cleveland’s 
first Administration, a special Board of Civil Service Kxamin- 
ers was convened and Capt. Carraway was examined and ap- 
pointed a Post-office Inspector, and for four years he traveled 
in 27 States and made a splendid record in that service; but he 
found no State like North Carolina and no place like home! 
He then returned and resumed his former position as Staff 
Correspondent of the News and Observer. 

Capt. Carraway was Chief Marshal at the unveiling of the 
Caswell Monument, and conducted that ceremony hand- 
somely. 

He has been successful as a farmer, and now makes tobacco 
profitably at his old homestead. ara 

This is his first appearance in the Legislative halls, but 
wherever he goes he carries with him about 300 pounds of true 
Democracy, and he will make an efficient representative of his 
intelligent constituency. te. 

Capt. Carraway married first Miss Alice B. Williard, of 
Nash, and after her death he married Miss Mary B. Williard. 
He has had thirteen children; of whom eleven are living, four 


of whom are daughters, all married, and three of his seven 
boys are now Democratic voters. 


HON. H. S. HARRISON. 


One of the most prominent, conservative and popular mem- 
bers of the House of Representatives is that able member 
from the county of Halifax, H. S. Harrison, of Medoc, Hali- 
fax County, N. C. He was born 46 years ago, in Brunswick 
County, Va. He was educated at the Greenwood High School, 
of Albemarle County, Va. On the 20th day of April, 1876, he 
left Virginia for North Carolina, and accepted a position with 
C. W. Garrett, owner of the famous Medoc Vineyards, at 
Medoc, N. C. So well did he make himself valuable to Mr. 
Garrett, by carefully studying and planning how her could 
best serve his employer’s interests and increase the quality of 
his wines, that in 1882 he became so valuable that he was 
appointed manager of the vineyards, which position he has 
since held, with honor to the firm and credit to himself. 
After his appointment as manager of these famous old vine. 
yards, he began to enlarge the business by increasing the 
acreage and improving the machinery of the concern. He 
also made a careful study of how he could increase the qual- 
ity of grapes grown, and get the best results from same. So 
well has he succeeded in his experiments that to-day the 
wines made by the firm of C. W. Garrett & Co., owners of 
the famous and justly celebrated Medoc Vineyards, are known 
and sold all over the United States and other countries. 

Mr. Harrison is now the senior proprietor of this grand old 
vineyard, and is one of the best known business men and 
manufacturers in the State. 

He has never sought political honors or office in his life, 
yet to help win the victory which is now so well known, not 
only in North Carolina, but to the world, for ‘‘ White Su- 
premacy,’’ and to redeem his adopted State from negro and 
Fusion rule, he accepted the nomination, and entered vigor- 
ously in the campaign; and when the returns were made, he 
was elected by a gratifying majority. Mr. Harrison has 
made an admirable representative, and the people of Halifax 
have good cause to feel proud of their representation in the 
House of Representatives. He was appointed as one of the 
committee to visit the State Farms and investigate the man- 
agement of same. He visited the farms personally, and on 
account of his practical experience in farming he was enabled 
to give a report that the House could follow with ease and 
promptness. 

Mr. Harrison is a member of the Appropriation Commit- 
tee, the Deafand Dumb Institutions, Penal Institutions, Propo- 
sition and Grievances, and Pension commiittees. 

Mr. Harrison, as a member of the House, has won the con- 
fidence and love of his fellow-members and employees of the 
General Assembly, and to day I dare say he is one of the most 
popular members of the Assembly, a man with whom it isa 
pleasure and honor to meet and know. Such men North Car- 
olina is proud of, and they are the kind of meu who do much 


by their individual efforts to build up and advance the inter- 
ests of our grand old State, and forever keep us under Demo- 
cratic rule and influences. 


G. B. PATTERSON, of Robeson County, is 35 yearsold. Was 
born in Richmond County, Heisalawyer. Was educated at 
the Laurinburg High School and the University of North Car- 
olina. He is a Democrat of true-blue principles, and is prom- 
inently identified with the educational interests of the State. 
He was elected by a majority of 830 votes. 


J. H. HorrMan, of the county of Burke, was born in Burke 
County 49 years ago. Heisa farmer by occupation, was edu- 
cated at the public schools, and is an able Democrat. He was 
elected to the Lower House of the General Assembly by a ma- 
jority of 117 votes. 


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HON. 8. L. 


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: HON. HARRY W. STUBBS. 


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HON. FRANCIS DONNELL WINSTON. 


Francis Donnell Winston was born in Bertie County October 
2, 1857. His parents were Hon. Patrick Henry Winston, one of 
North Carolina’s ablest jurists, and Martha Blizabeth Byrd, a 
lady of rare virtues. 

The Winstons came originally from Lincolnshire, England, 
and settled in Hanover County, Va. Sarah Winston, of the 
family, was the mother of Patrick Henry, the great orator of 
the Revolution. The Byrds came from Scotland, settling also 
in Virginia. Col. William Byrd, of Westover, the most culti- 
vated gentleman in Virginia in the last century, was a mem- 
ber of this family. Thus Mr, Winston is a descendant of two 
of the oldest, most talented, and most eminent families in the 
South. The blood is English, mixed with Scotch-Irish. Mr. 
Winston’s education was received at the Fetter’s School, in 
Henderson, the Horner School at Oxford, Cornell University, 
New York, and the University of North Carolina. From the 
latter institution he graduated with distinction in 1879. InJan- 
uary, 1881, he was licensed to practice law, having been a stu- 
dent at the Dick & Dillard Law School at Greensboro, In 
January, 1881, just after he was licensed, Judge Aug. S. Sey- 
mour appointed him Clerk of the Superior Court of Bertie 
County. i 

Mr. Winston was nominated for State Superintendent of 
Public Instruction by the Liberal Party in 1884. In 1886 he 
was elected and served asa State Senator from Bertie and North- 
ampton counties. 

In 1890 he was nominated for Judge of the Second Judicial 
District by the Republican Party, and declined the nomina- 
tion, and declared his allegiance to the Democratic Party. 
Since 1892 he has been a member of the Democratic State Ex- 
ecntive Committee, and a member of the Second Congres- 
sional District Committee. He presided over the State Conven- 
tion of Democratic Clubs in 1894, and over the Congressional 
Convention of that year in his district. 

At the request of Hon. F. M. Simmons, State Chairman 
in the late campaign, Mr. Winston had charge of the forma- 
tion and organizing of the ‘‘White Government Unions,” 
which were most potent factors in the campaign. 

On the roth day of October, 1898, he was unanimously nom- 
inated for the Legislature by his party, and at once entered 
upon an aggressive and thorough canvass, which resulted in 
his election, as well as the election of the entire ticket on which 
The Fusion ticket carried Bertie County in 1896 by 
The average Democratic majority 


he ran. 
an average majority of goo. 
this year was 100. 

In every campaign since 1890 Mr. Winston has canvassed a 
large part of the State, and his public speeches are strong, 
and filled with a fund of humor that renders him popular with 
the people. 

Mr. Winston takes active interest in education. He has 
been a Trustee of the University since 1887, and was one of 
the orators at the last Commencement. He is a large-hearted, 
philanthropic man; and largely at his instance the county of 
Bertie has established a House of Correction, with a farm at- 
tached, where the aged and infirm are cared for. He was 
Chairman of the Board of Directors until removed by the Fu- 
In his professsional relations Mr. Winston enjoys the 
He 


sionists. 
confidence of the people of his section in a high degree, 
is an advocate of power, a well-equipped lawyer. 

He takes great interest in Masonry, and has been one of that 
order’s grand officers for some years. As the Chairman of the 
Special Committee appointed in January, 1898, to raise a fund 
for the construction of ‘‘Girls’ Buildings’’ at the Orphan Asy- 
lum at Oxford, he has raised the splendid sum of $5,000. 

Mr. Winston is most happily married to Miss Rosa Mary 


Kenney, a musician of rare ability, and a most excellent help- 
mate to a man who finds his chiefest pleasure around his fire- 
side. 


The subject of this sketch comes of distinguished ancestry— 
a family that has impressed itself on this and other States. His 
brothers are Hon. P. H. Winston, lawyer, author and wit, 
Spokane, Washington, at present Attorney-General of that 
State; George T. Winston, LL. D., President of the University 
of Texas, Austin, Texas, and Hon. Robert W. Winston, ex- 
Judge of the Superior Court, Durham, N. C. Their sister, 
Mrs, Frank S. Spruill, of Louisburg, is one of the most tal- 
ented women in the State. 


Our distinguished statesman was frequently mentioned for 
the Speakership of the House. He occupies a place in the 
front rank of that able body. His native county is proud of 
her distinguished son, and she sees in the future high honors 
awaiting him. He has the boldness to declare for the princi- 
ples and policies of his party, and the ability to take care of 
himself in any emergency. He is a member of nearly all the 
important committees of the House, and is one of its recog- 
nized leaders. 


HON. HARRY W. STUBBS. 


Success is like a pyramid, broad at the base, as the thronging 
millions that crowd it. Towering upward its form narrows. 
Scattered along its sides are the men who have achieved some- 
thing of more than usual prominence in the world’s affairs. 
At the top are the few men who have grandly succeeded, their 
forms lit up by the sunshine of their well-earned prosperity. 
Among those who have achieved success by reason of their in- 
dividual worth and merit is the Hon, Harry W. Stubbs, who 
represents the county of Martin in the Lower House of the Gen- 
eral Assembly of North Carolina, and who is one of the stand- 
ard-bearers of Democracy in North Carolina. 


Mr. Stubbs is one of the leaders in the House, and one of the 
foremost workers for the Constitutional Amendment, the most 
important measure before the General Assembly. By hard 
and earnest work this amendment passed the House and Sen- 
ate, and it now lies with the people of North Carolina if we 
shall have ‘“‘ White Supremacy ”’ and education or Fusion rule. 

Mr. Stubbs was born in Williamston, N. C., February 16, 
1860, of a distinguished parentage. He was given exceptional 
educational advantages; attended the Horner School at Oxford 
and other educational institutions, after which he graduated 
from the University of North Carolina. He then began the 
study of Jaw, reading under the direction of Hon. James E. 
Moore, Dick & Dillard and others. He was granted license to 
practice law in January, 1881, after which he began the active 
practice of his profession, associating himself with Hon. James 
E Moore, one of the most distinguished lawyers in the State. 

Mr. Stubb has since his early days been an active politician, 
and is recognized by the Democratic Party of his section of the 
State. His able knowledge of parliamentary law and-quick 
perception of intricate legal points make him an able jurist, his 
judgment being quick and reliable. 

In 1889, Mr. Stubbs accepted the nomination for the Second 
Senatorial District, and after a brilliant and forcible campaign 
he was elected by a handsome majority. He was for two years 
Solicitor for the Inferior Court of Martin County. He was also 
at one time Mayor of Williamston. In 1898, at the solicitation 
of thé leaders of the Democratic Party, he accepted the nomi- 
nation for the Lower House of the General Assembly, and imme- 
diately began an active campaign for ‘‘White Supremacy”’ and 
Democracy. The result was indeed gratifying, not only to the 
Democratic Party but to his friends and himself. 

Mr. Stubbsis a gentleman with a charming personnel of man- 
ner. Heis the handsomest man in the House of Representatives, 
and his power as a law-maker has been tested and found equal 
to the best. He is a brilliant talker and speaks directly to the 
point in a clear andconcise manner. He represents the people 
of his county and of North Carolina, and Martin County, in a 
manner that has won the confidence and respect of the people 
of the Democratic Party. His able executive ability and hon- 
est justice to all ranks him at once as a leader of the grand old 


party. 


44 . NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 


HON. J. FLOYD BROWN. 


It always affords me much pleasure to write of the success 
and the advancement of young men to positions of honor, 
trust and responsibility, and especially so in the case of the 
young gentleman who is the subject of this sketch, from the 
fact that he has gained the top rung of the ladder of success 
by his own individual efforts. He was born at Earpsboro, 
in Johnston County, 34 years ago, where he spent his boy- 
hood days on his father’s plantation. He was educated at 
public schools and the local academies, and from early youth 
has always been an active Democrat and political worker. 


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After receiving his education he began the study of progres- 
sive and scientific farming, and to-day is perhaps one of the 


best posted farmers in the State. He is an able young Demo- 
crat, who takes great pride in the party, and he is recognized 
in the county he has the bonor of representing as a clear 


thinker, and as a man of good and progressive spirit—as one’ 


who has the interests of his constituents ever before hit, 
and as a gentleman who is an honor to Democracy, ‘‘ White 
Supremacy ’’ and good government—a man of and for the 
people. He made a strong and successful campaign in his 
county, and was elected by a gratifying majority. 

He has introduced several important bills, among which was 
the Dispensary Bill for Johnston County. Also a bill to pro- 
vide for short crop liens, which is a valuable bill for the 
farmer. 

Mr. Brown has since the organization of the Legislature 
made for himself a record that is indeed gratifying to his con- 
stituents and creditable to himself. He is a young Democrat 
who is a credit to Democracy, and an able representative of 
the county he represents. 

Mr, Brown is a member of the following committees: Fi- 
nance; Agriculture; Military Affairs; Insurance; Salaries and 
Fees. 

Up to the time of the campaign of 1898 Mr. Brown had never 
been a candidate for political office, yet to save his State from 
Fusion rule and mismanagement he entered the race, and to- 
day a man represents Johnston County in the House of Rep- 
resentatives who represents Democracy and the people. There 
is a bright future before this young gentleman in the political 
arena, should he desire to take an active interest in the ad- 
vancement of himself in same, and who knows what honors 
await him? « 


HON. SPENCER L. HART. 


The distinguished Representative from Edgecombe is one of 
North Carolina’s able men. He was born in the county he has 
the honor of representing at the “Old Hart Homestead,” 
where he now resides, on the 6th day of January, 1859. Asa 
young man he took a great interest in military affairs, and at 
an early age he enlisted as a private in the North Carolina 
State Guards, on the organization of the State Militia under 
the illustrious Vance, who was Commander-in-Chief, in Febru- 
ary, 1877; and Mr. Hart has continuously served in the State 
Militia since that time. On the organization of the Rocky 
Mount Light Infantry, by Governor Scales, on- the 26th of 
June, 1888, which company was organized largely by Mr. 
Hart’s influence, he giving his time, talents and means to or- 
ganize and afterwards maintain same, he was commissioned 
Captain of the Company. In this capacity he so demonstrated 
his familiarity and able ability in military affairs that Gover- 
nor Elias Carr, recognizing his admirable qualities, commis- 
sioned him Aide-de-Camp on the Brigade Staff, June 22, 1894, 
and again commissioned him Major and Brigade Commissary, 
First Brigade, North Carolina State Guard, December 22d, 
1894. 

Mr. Hart is well known all over the State. For a number of 
years he was proprietor of the Hammond Hotel at Rocky 


Mount, which, under his management was one of the best- - 


known hotels in North Carolina. Since retiring from the ho- 
tel business he has resided on his farm in Walnut Creek 
Township, Edgecombe County, where he was born. He is a 
large planter, and is thoroughly in touch with everything that 
concerns the farming class, and isa great advocate of every- 
thing that is to the advantage of the farmer, and he is indeed 
popular with the people of his county. 

Ae was nominated as one of the Democratic candidates of 
the Lower House of the General Assembly in 1896, and was 
defeated by his Republican opponent by a majority of 1,000 
votes. He was again nominated for the same position by ac- 
clamation at the great mass meeting in Tarboro on the 18th 
day of October, 1898, and was elected to the same by a majority 
of 2,500 votes, which is the largest Democratic majority that 
was received by a member of the Lower House during the glo- 
rious campaign for ‘‘ White Supremacy.’’ Walnut Township 
(the precinct in which Mr. Hart resides) has not gone Demo- 
cratic since 1868, until this election. This fact alone attests 
to the popularity of Mr. Hart and to his shrewdness as a poli- 
tician. 

He has always taken an unusual interest in the success and 
welfare of his party, and is a member of the House of Repre- 
sentatives who is faithful and conscientious in the discharge of 
his duties and an ideal representative of his people. 

On account of his familiarity with military affairs Mr. Hart 
was appointed Chairman of the Committee on Military Mat- 
ters, and he has discharged the duties attending the position 


in a manner that has won for him the respect and high regard 
of his associates and the everlasting confidence of those who 
are posted on the advantages of having a thoroughly organ- 
ized State Guard. 

Mr. Hart has been twice married and has two grown sons, 
who are also for Democratic success forever. His wife, too, 
a charming woman and lovable wife, is thoroughly in svmpa- 
thy with her husband’s success and political intentions, and is 
at all times proud and enthusiastic over Democratic success. 

Mr. Hart makes a model Representative, and his constitn- 
ents have much cause to feel gratified with their choice. 


C. M. THOMPSON is 55 years of age. He was born in David- 
son County, near Lexington. He is a manufacturer of sash, 
doors, blinds, etc. He was educated at Mt. Pleasant College, 
and has never before sought or held a political office. He was 
elected by a majority of 456 votés, and is one of Lexington’s 
able citizens, — 


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NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 45 


HON. D. R. JULIAN. 


There are few men in the North Carolina political arena who 
do not know this well-known politician. He has held po- 
sitions of trust and responsibitity in the Democratic Party 
during nearly every administration of the party, and he is one 
of the most popular Representatives of the House. He repre- 
sents his party in an able and influential manner. The peo- 
ple of Rowan County should be proud of their representation 
in 1899 and Igoo. 

Mr. Julian was born in Rowan County in 1850, and spent his 
boyhood days on a farm. When 20 years old he moved to 
Salisbury and became interested in mercantile interests. 


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Mr. Julian has served in positions of trust in the town of 
Salisbury, and is manager of the Kesler Cotton Mills, a large 
and progressive concern. 

He has always taken an active part in politics and has a 
large and influential following in his county. During the 
famous ‘‘ White Supremacy ’’ campaign he made a splendid 
fight, and with his colleague, Hon. Lee S. Overman, was elect- 
ed by a majority of 1,500 votes. 

Mr. Julian is familiar with politics and is a great fighter in 

the interests of his constituents and the party. He is a thor- 
ough Democrat, and enjoys the confidence and respect of the 
party leaders as well as of his followers and friends. 
_ He was Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate in 1885, ’85, °87 and 
’89; in 1895 he represented the county of Rowan in the Lower 
House. He was offered the nomination in 1897 for the Senate, 
which he accepted, and made a gallant fight, leading his ticket 
by over 300 votes, yet going under with the tidal wave. 


In 1898 he accepted the uomination for the House of 
Representatives, and was elected by a handsome majority. 

Mr, Julian made a splendid record for himself during the 
Legislature, and fought gallantly for what he thought was for 
the best interests of the people of the State and the Demo- 
cratic Party. Heisa pleasant and entertaining conversation- 
alist, and is a popular favorite with all who know him. 

_ May your future, Mr. Julian, be bright, pleasant and pros- 
perous. 


HON. J. F. REINHARDT. 


“The gentleman from Lincoln,” as he is familiarly called 
by his friends, is one of North Carolina’s most able Represent- 
atives. He was born in Lincoln County, the county which he 
has the honor of representing to-day in the Lower House of 
the General Assembly. He is by occupation a farmer, and he 
is, in his county and throughout the State of North Carolina, 
well known in political circles as an able and influential Dem- 
ocrat, who has the confidence and respect of his constituents. 
He lives in the town of Reinhardt, North Carolina, and was 
educated in the public schools. He has before enjoyed the 
confidence of the people of Lincoln County, by representing 
them in the Legislature of 1895. And he was again elected in 
1898 by a majority of 400 votes. 

He has kept a watchful eye on the workings of the Legisla- 
tive body, and has voted against all bills coming up that were 
not for the best interests of the party he represents. He has 
introduced several important bills, among which was the bill 
to incorporate ‘‘The East Tennessee and Western North Caro- 
lina Railroad Company,’ which is more familiarly known as 
“General Hoke’s Railroad.’ This road, when in operation, 
will be of much value to the State of North Carolina and the 
people of Lincoln County. ~ 


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HON. J. F. REINHARDT. 


Mr. Reinhardt is a great favorite with the old Confederate 
Soldiers of North Carolina, and he is frequently alluded to by 
them as “Their Special Guardian.” Being an old vet. himself 
he is perhaps better posted on what they need than any man 
in the State; he being the oldest member in point of actual 
service of any member of the House, having fought manfully 
for his country from Bethel to the surrender. And when his 
old battle-scarred comrades come before him with proofs of 
their services, they always get the glad hand, and, if possible, 
a pension is granted them. 

Mr. Reinhardt is a strong fighter, and enjoys the respect of 
the members of the House, not only of his own party, but of 
the other parties as well. He is a member of the following 
committees: Finance; Counties, Cities, Towns and Town- 
ships; Penal Institutions, and Pensions. 

When the good people of Lincoln County elected Mr, Rein- 
hardt to represent them in the Legislature, their selection fell 
on a man who is a credit to them and to the Democratic Par- 
ty. Heis aman of high principles and character, a true-blue 
Democrat who is an honor to the ‘‘white man’s’’ party, 


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46 NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 


HON. M. S. WILLARD, 


Of the county of New Hanover, was born in Washington 
County 41 years ago. He is engaged in the insurance busi- 
ness. He was educated at Yale. He is a Democrat, who 
enjoys the confidence and esteem of the people he represents. 
Was Chairman of the County Board of Assessors of New Han- 
over County, and he and his associate, Mr. Rountree, were 


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HON. M. S. WILLARD. 


elected to the Lower House of the General Assembly by a 
vote of 2,863, which was by unanimous acclamation. ‘This is 
the only case on record of this kind in the State, and coming 
as it does from the eastern part of North Carolina, simply 


demonstrates what ‘‘White Supremacy ’’ means. 


HON. HERIOT CLARKSON 


Is considered one of the most eminent advocates in the State 
and is at the same time one of the best known. 

A sketch cf this brilliant yonng statesman will be of interest 
to Young Democracy, for it tells of the successful career of a 
self-made man. 

Heriot Clarkson was born at Kingsville, Richland County, 
South Carolina, August 21, 1863. Heisasonof William Clark- 
son, a Captain in the Confederate army, and a lineal descend- 
ant of Thomas Boston, the Scotch divine, and of the only sis- 
ter of Gen. Francis Marion, of Revolutionary fame. He moved 
to Charlotte in 1873 and was a student at the Carolina Military 
Institute under Col. John P. Thomas from October, 1873, to 
June, 1880. On the 16th of June, 1880, he entered when 16 years 
old the law office of Gen. R.D. Johnston and Col. H. C. Jones, and 
was with them until January, 1884 when he took a course of 
law at the University under Hon. John Manning. He studied 
under him until the fall of 1884, when he was licensed to prac- 
tice law by the Supreme Court of North Carolina. While at 
the University he led his class in law. As soon as he received 
his license he commenced the practice of law in the city of 
Charlotte, and in 1888 formed a partnership with C, H. Duls, 


Esq., who and they have one of the largest law practicesin Char- 
lotte. In May, 1887, he was elected Alderman and vice-Mayor 
of the city of Charlotte, and served in that capacity two years 
and was again elected to the same office in May, r8g1, and 
served two years. 

On December toth, 1889, he married Mary Loyd Osborne, 
daughter of Rev. E. A. Osborne. He has four children, three 
boys and a girl. He is a member of the Episcopal Church. 

He has always been a strong party Democrat and has never 
voted any other ticket, often disagreeing with the party, but 
believing that unwavering allegiance to the Democratic Party 
was the only course to obtain good government in the South. 
He has been a member for many years, and is now, of the State 
Denmiocratic Executive Committee. He was opposed to fusion 
on the electoral ticket in 1896, but followed the standard- 
bearer of bis party loyally. 

The first ‘‘ White Supremacy ’’ club, in recent years, formed 
in North Carolina, with ‘‘ White Supremacy’’ and ‘‘ White 
Labor’’ as its only platform, was formed by him and a few 
others in Charlotte before the election of 1896, and numbered 
about six hundred members. Since then Asheville, Winston 
aud Wilmiugton have formed similar clubs. He was a strong 
advocate of the white man’s resolution passed by only two votes 
by the Democratic Executive Committee of the State, which 
did so much to help redeem North Carolina. He is an advo- 
cate of a registered primary for white men to nominate all 
State and county officers under the auspices of the Democratic 
Party. He drew the platform on which Hon. John D. Bellamy 
was nominated and which was unavimously adopted without 
change by the committee and convention. 

The platform was received with enthusiasm by the conven- 
tion which was held in Wilmington. Subsequent events show 
how nobly the people carried out the declaration, ‘‘We do 
hereby declare our determination that white supremacy through 
white men shall rule and control North Carolina.’’ 

The platform reads as follows: 

“We do most heartily reiterate the resolution of the State 
Executive Committee in which all white electors are cordially 
invited to participate in our primaries and conventions, and do 
call upon all white men who love their home and native land 
to join with us in the great battlein North Carolina now waged 
for the supremacy of the white man and against the corrupt and 
intolerable government now given us by designing white men 
joining with the negro, and we do hereby declare our determi- 
nation that white supremacy through white men shall control 
and rule North Carolina.” . 

Mr. Clarkson has always been in favor of restraining the 
liquor traffic, and has taken an active interest in all legislation 
looking to that end. When on the Board of Aldermen of the 
city of Charlotte in 1887, he agitated and had passed (with the 
progressive Mayor of the city at that time, Hon. F. B. Mc. 
Dowell) a law requiring $1,000 license, which has continued in 
force ever since and had the effect of reducing the bars about 


one-fourth. He has been in full sympathy with the industrial 
upbuilding of the State, and was one of the charter members 
of the Piedmont Fire Insurance Co. established a few years ago 
in North Carolina. He is an advocate of a textile school for 
North Carolina, and is a strong believer in ‘‘ trade education.” 

Mr. Clarkson has madea most brilliant record on the floor of 
the House of Representatives, one that the people of Mecklen- 
burg and North Carolina may well be proud of. He is a clear, 
concise aud able speaker, and as a lawyer he has few equals. 
In the full possession of manly vigor, he has won laurels at 
the Charlotte bar and as a member of the State Legislature, 
which only add to his popularity and high standing, He isa 
man who is popular with the people and he has a brilliant 
future before him. Such men add to the standing and influ- 
ence of our State, and are indeed a credit to the ‘‘white man’s” 
party. 

May your future, Mr. Clarkson, be as bright and successful 
as your past, is the wish of the writer. 


NORTH CAROLINA" STATESMEN. 


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HON. H. CLAY WALL, 


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HON. GEORGE ROUNTREE. 


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. HERIOT CLARKSON, 


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HON. WALTER E. MOORE. 


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HON. HENRY CLAY WALL. 


One of the most able and influential members of the House 
of Representatives of the great State of North Carolina is 
Hon. Henry Clay Wall, ‘“‘the gentleman from Richmond.”’ 
He is one of the ‘‘ Tar-Heel’’ State’s most representative 
Democrats. While never having sought a political office, he 
has at all times been found in the front ranks of Democracy 
with his influence and money, and when he accepted the 
nomination for the Legislature in ’98, he did so because he 
had the interests of ‘‘White Supremacy’’ before him, and 
did not desire to see his county under Republican and negro 
rule. He, for the time being, put aside his large business 
interests for the interests of Democracy, and his record as a 
member of the House of Representatives is one that the peo- 
of Richmond County have just cause to be proud of. 

Mr, Wall has introduced several important and praiseworthy 
bills, among which was the bill appropriating $1,000 for 
the publication in book-form of sketches of North Carolina 
regiments in the ‘‘war between the States.’’ Also a bill pro- 
viding for a Text-Book Commission. Such bilis are of course 
in popular favor with distinguished North Carolinians, and the 
speech made by Mr. Wall regarding the publication of the 
sketches of North Carolina regiments touched the hearts of 
his hearers, and many a tear was quietly yet proudly wiped 
from the eyes of men who were in the battles and members of 
the regiments, and whose hearts went out to Mr. Wall for his 
able efforts to make perpetual the memories so dear to them. 

Mr. Wall was born near Rockingham, N. C., 57 years ago. 
He was educated at the schools of Rockingham, Randolph- 
Macon College, in Virginia, and the University of North Car- 
olina. He is to-day one of North Carolina’s leading farmers 
and manufacturers, owning and operating large farming and 
cotton-milling interests. 

He is President and Treasurer of the Robedell Manufacturing 
Company, of Rockingham, and a director in five other leading 
cotton-mills. Also a directorin the Bank of Pee Dee, of Rock- 
ingham. ‘ 

He is an able and influential member of the following com- 
mittees: On Railroad and Railroad Commission; on Edu- 
cation; Election Laws; Counties, Cities, Towns and Townships; 
on Claims; on Printing; Election of University Trustees, etc. 

Mr. Wall is a statesman who e1joys the esteem, confidence 
and respect of the people of North Carolina, and of the Dem- 
ocratic Party. Such men as he build up the commercial ad- 
vantages of our State, and advance the social and financial in- 


terests. Such men perpetuate Democracy. 


HON. WALTER E. MOORE. 


While it is undoubtedly true, according to that great paper, 
the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free 
and equal, yet all men do not make equal use of the opportu- 
nities afforded them in this country, * preeminent above ail 
others as the land of opportunities. All lives are full of strug- 
gles, and each has its history, Some are misdirected, and fail 
of success; others, with no better chance, win the goal. The 
successful man always has marked characteristics, gotten in 
his wrestle with the Fates. Hither his popularity or his appre- 
ciation or his energy, has won the battle, and these leave upon 
him the characteristics which make tp his individuality. 

Hon. Walter E. Moore, that distinguished statesman from 
Western North Carolina, has evinced all these elements of suc- 
cess—popularity for his geniality, a place in the world’s es- 
teem by his appreciation, and success as the result of energetic 
action. 


NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 


Mr. Moore was born not far from Asheville, N. C., 42 years 
ago. He was educated at Candler College. By profession he 
is a lawyer—and by the way, one who has won many successes 
in the legal arena. He is a loyal Democrat, and an active pol- 
itician, always leading the fights in his part of the State in 
the interests of Democracy. He was a member of the State 
Legislature in 1893, and was again returned by his people to rep- 
resent the county of Jackson in 1898 by a majority of 216 votes. 
He is an able parliamentarian, and during the recent session of 
State Solons added new honors to his reputation by always 
standing up for the rights and interests of his people. Fre- 
quently he was called to the Chair by Speaker Connor, and 
presided in the absence of the Speaker. His able advice on 
important questions up for discussion was sought and heeded 
by many of his fellow-imembers. He is a Democrat of Demo- 
crats. 


Mr. Moore is a very popular man, not only in politics, butin 
personal life. He was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of 
Masons in North Carolina, and is loved and respected by all 
who know him. 


As a lawyer he has built up a lucrative business at Webster, 
N. C., and as a politician he has the confidence of his con- 
stituents. He is a statesman who has a brilliant future before 
him, a man who North Carolina is proud to have as one of her 
representatives. 


HON. GEORGE ROUNTREE. 


A Democrat, a statesman, a man learned in law—such 
is our able Representative from the county of New Hanover, 
Hon. George Rountree. He is a man who has come into 
political prominence not through personal desire, but because 
it was the wish of his constituents. During the famous cam- 
paign of 1898 for ‘‘ White Supremacy’’ and Democracy Mr. 
Rountree made a gallant and fearless fight, frequently taking 
his life in his hands by making speeches for ‘‘ White Su- 
premacy’’ in the midst of his enemies. Is it any wonder 
that this man is beloved by his people? He received unani- 
mous support at the Convention, and was elected by the largest 
majority ever given a candidate in New Hanover County. He 
has, as a legislator, fulfilled to the satisfaction of everybody 
the promises and pledges made during the campaign. He has 
aided in making laws that are just and in the best interests 
of our people. 


Mr. Rountree is to day one of the most learned lawyers in 
North Carolina, and he is thoroughly familiar with almost 
every public and private act of the State. He is a distin- 
guished statesman, and should he desire political honors he 
has brilliant opportunities to gain same. 


George Rountree is 49 years of age. He was born in Kin- 
ston, Lenoir County, N. C. He was educated at Bethel Col- 
lege, West Virginia, and at Harvard College, where he graduated 
with honors in June, 1877. Shortly after graduating he began 
the practice of law, and now has a large and lucrative practice 
in the city of Wilmington. He is a progressive and enterpris- 
ing gentleman, a citizen that her people are proud of, and a 
man who is ever ready and willing to do that which tends 
to advance the interests of his people, his city and his State. 
As a speaker he is clear and concise in his language, quick 
to take advantage of the weak points of an adversary, and 
ai all times ready to help a friend. Such is this big-hearted 
and distinguished statesman, Hon. George Rountree, repre- 
senting the county of New Hanover. Long and faithful may 
you serve the State and the people of North Carolina. 


NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 


DANIEL HUGH McLEAN. 


One of the most distingushed looking, and one of the most 
able Representatives of the North Carolina General Assembly, 
is the Hon. Daniel Hugh McLean, whose remarkable resem- 
blance to one of the most notable men and statesmen that 
North Carolina has ever produced, Zebulon Baird Vance, calls 
to my mind the following lines, written by an admirer of 
Vance : 


“He was full-statured, and his greatness came 
As the result of no mere circumstance, 
But was his rightful, true inheritance; 
With native majesty he wore his fame; 
For Nature clothed and gave to him her name, 
So mighty that he rose above all chance, 
A hero in an age without romance, 
Whose life began and ended without shame. 
His humor and humanity were one; 
He loved the people with a brother’s love, 

_ Beloved by them whom he always believed. 
With naught to do so great as he had done, 
He passed to God, immortalized above 

And upon earth, where mourns a State bereaved.” 


Photo. by Wharton. 
HON. D. H. M’LEAN. 


Daniel Hugh McLean is a typical, ideal and representative 
North Carolina Democrat, a man with rare and admirable 
qualities, aud a gentleman with whom it is a pleasure to meet. 
He represents the county of Harnett in an able and intelligent 
manner, and is one of the most popular members of the House 
of Representatives. His resemblance to Mr. Vance is so no- 


ticeable that he is frequently referred to as ‘‘Our Vance of the - 


House,’’ which is an honor that the gentleman can not fail to 
appreciate. Few men are so beloved in memory by the peo- 
ple of North Carolina as the immortal Vance. 

Mr. Mclean was born at Summerville, Harnett County, 52 
years ago. He uow resides at Dunn, N. C., where he prac- 
ices law. He was educated at home schools, and read law 


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under Hon. Thomas G. Fuller and Capt. N. W. Ray, two of 
North Carolina’s most able lawyers. He has been honored 
with important positions by the people of his county. Was 
Register of Deeds, and represented the county of Harnett in 
the Legislature of 1876-77. He has the complete confidence 
of the Democratic Party of the State of North Carolina. He 
is a member of the State Executive Committee, and is Chair- 
man of the Congressional Executive Committee of his dis- 
trict. 

Mr. McLean was elected in 1898 by a majority of 268 votes, 
Overcoming a majority against him in 1896 of 350. This isa 
race that speaks in mute eloquence of the popularity of this 
able statesman, and the people of Harnett County may well 
feel proud of their distinguished Representative, who is one 
of the able men of the General Assembly. 


HON. W. D. WELCH. 


This able young Democrat, who has the honor of represent- 
ing the county of Chowan in the Lower House of the General 
Assembly, is only 25 years of age, yet, for a young man, he 
has a bright record and a brilliant future. He was born at 
Gliden, in the county of Chowan, and was educated at the 


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HON. W. D. WELCH. 


Warwick Academy, High Point Academy, and at the Univer- 
sity of North Carolina. 
gaged in educational work, and has been Principal of the 
Warwick Academy. He has enjoyed the confidence and es- 
teem of the people he represents in a manner that is indeed 
gratifying aad creditable to him. When they elected him to 
represent the county of Chowan their choice fell upon a young 
men wise beyond his years, and an able young Democrat, who 
has represented them with credit and honor. His ability was 
recognized by the Speaker of the House when he appointed 
Mr. Welch on the the following important committees: Educa- 
tion; Insane Asylums; Military Affairs; Insurance; Oyster In- 
terests, and Fish and Fisheries. ; 

Mr. Welch was appointed on several of these committees on 


For several years he has been en- 


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account of his fitness and for his familiarity of the matters 
that naturally come up before them. His experience as an 
educator adapts him especially for the educational interests, 
and his personal knowledge of fish and oyster interests make 
him valuable on these committees. 

Mr. Welch has by his intelligent forethought and courtesy 
made many friends among the statesmen of North Carolina. 
He has, in a quiet, undemonstrative manner, won the high re- 
gard of all whom he has come in contact with. He has a clear 
way of expressing his ideas, which lends force and effect. 

The record he has made for his county bespeaks for him the 
coutinued respect and confidence of the people of Chowan. 
They sent a Representative to the Legislature who has and 
does represent them with honor and credit. 

Mr. Welch is one of the younger members of the House, yet 
in an undemonstrative manner he has won the attention and 
good-will of the older members, and has done much toward 
making the representation of Chowan County gratifying to 
his constituents and to Democracy. He is a young man who 
has brillliant prospects and who will at each opportunity add 
to his splendid record, and no doubt become a statesman of 
whom North Carolina will be proud. 


HON. J. D. BOUSHALL. 


One of the best known and representative statesmen and 
business men in North Carolina to-day is the gentleman whose 
name heads this sketch, Hon. J. D. Boushall, of Raleigh, 
N. C., who has the honor of representing the county of Wake, 
in which is situated the Capitol of the State. 


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HON. J. D. BOUSHALL. 


Mr. Boushall has for a number of years been one of Ral- 
eigh’s leading an prosperous business men. He has at all 
times taken an active interest in local and State politics and 
was an Alderman of Raleigh, and in that position was a 
member of uearly all the important committees and did 
much good and effective work for his town and the people of 
his city. At the beginning of the recent campaign he was 


NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 


selected by the party leaders to represent the county of Wake 
in the Legislature as one of the few men who could success- 
fully carry the banner of ‘‘ White Supremacy.’’ While it cost 
Mr. Boushall much in the way of time and money to make 
the fight, he sacrificed his personal interests and accepted the 
nomination in the interest of Democracy and was elected by a 
handsome majority. His record as a member of the General 
Assembly of 1899 is bright and spotless, and reflects greatly 
to the credit of this distinguished young statesman. He was 
at all times ready to champion legislation that was for the best 
interests of the people and his State. He was one of the 
Democratic leaders on the floor, and his powerful voice was 
frequently heard in beautiful bursts of oratory in the interests 
of good legislation. 

Mr. Boushall, the people of the State, Wake County and 
Raleigh, are proud of you, and should your ambition lead 
you to desire anything they can bestow upon you, their sup- 
port will be willingly given. ; 

Mr. J. D. Boushall is General Agent for North Carolina for 
the Aitna Life Insurance Company, ‘of Hartford, Conn., one 
of the strongest companies in the/world. Their forty-ninth 
annual statement, dated January 1, 1899, shows gross assets 
$50,227,020.81. Surplus as regards policy-holders $7,245,052.02. 
They have paid to policy holders since their organization 
$109,503,459.02, showing it to be one of the largest companies 
in the country, and doing a very successful business. 


HON. W. J. NICHOLS. 


When the people of the county of Pitt elected that genial 
and intelligent young gentleman, W. J. Nichols, to represent 
them in the House of Representatives they selected an able 
young man;though only 24 years of age, and inexperienced in 
the ways of political intrigues, he led his party to victory 
in a manner that was not only creditable to himself, but was one 


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HON. W. J. NICHOLS. 
that the party will ever recognize and appreciate. He was 
born at Greenville, Pitt County, where he spent his youthful 
days. He received his education at the University of North 


NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 51 


Carolina, and came direct from the University to the campaign 
field, and was honored by the Democrats with the nomination 
for the House of Representatives, and the banner for ‘‘ White 
Supremacy.’’ He accepted the nomination, and unfurled the 
flag of his party in a most able manner by entering the field 
with the intention of coming out victorious. So well did he 
succeed in perfecting his plans of campaign, and in organ- 
izing his party, that he quickly won the confidence and high 
regard of his constituents, and was elected to represent Pitt 
County by a majority of 453 votes, overcoming a Republican 
majority of about 700 (two years ago). This is a record that 
any young man may well feel proud of, and demonstrates the 
ability of the rising generation. 


Mr. Nichols has made an able representation of the county 
he has the honor of representing, and I dare say that for a 
young man he has few equals. 


Grit, determination and ability, backed’ up with courage and 


conviction, can not be beaten. 

Mr. Nichols is a member of the House who commands the 
respect of those who know and associate with him. He is 
very popular with the members of the General Assembly, who 
predict for him a brilliant future. He isa member of several 
important committees, and watches the interests of his State 
and constituents in a manner that speaks in mute praise of his 
strong and forceful character. No honors are too high for 
such a man, and who knows what the future has in store for 
him? 

Success to you, Mr. Nicho's, and may you ever retain, as 
you now have, the confidence and respect of the Democratic 
Party. 


HON. GIBSON JAMES. 


The subject of this sketch is a man who is well known in 
the political arena of the Old North State. He represents the 
county of Pender in the General Assembly as a member of the 
House of Representatives. 


Mr. James was born on the 17th day of December, 1854, in the 
Holly Shelter district of the county which he has the honor of 
representing. When he was born this part of the county was 
part of New Hanover County. He spent his early days on the 
farm, and later was interested in the mercantile business. 


At an early age Mr. James began to take an active interest in 
politics, and his able ability was frequently demonstrated, and 
he soon became recognized as a man of aptness and influence 
among the people of his county, his purity of character and 
fluency as an orator and speaker brought him to the front 
in a rapid manner. In 1896 he was one of the few Demo- 
crats who were members of the Legislature, and at the begin- 
ning of the campaign in 1898 he was again nominated by his 
friénds, and this is the first time in the history of Pender 
County that no other candidate received a vote in the Conven- 
tion for the Legislature. After accepting the nomination, which 
was tendered him not only because it is customary to give asuc- 
cessful candidate a second term, but because his able character 
and sterling qualifications were recognized by his friends and 
the Democratic leaders; and Mr. James has made a representa- 
tive that his county and his people are proud of. An able and 
eloquent talker, he is at all times found at the front in their 
interests. Such men area credit to North Carolina, and it is 
an honor to be their friend. Mr. James was a prosperous mer- 
chant, and takes an active interest in successful farming, and 
his constituents have the utmost confidence in him. 


During the last century many good people sought refuge 
from the Old Country for political and religious freedom, 


among whom was his grandfather, who was a soldier in the 
historic battle of Moore’s Creek, in Pender County, in 1776, 
and his father was a gallant soldier in the War of 1812. 


While a member of the Legislature two years ago Mr. James 
introduced and had passed a bill making the Moore’s Creek 
Battle-ground and Monuments State property, which act caused 
the State to acquire the battle-grounds where one of the most 
decisive battles of the war was fought, and on which occurred 
the first victorious battle for the American cause in North Car- 
olina, which was on the 27th day of February, 1776. 


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HON. GIBSON JAMES. 


Mr. James has had the interests of the people ever before 
him, and he sought by legislative enactment to regulate the 
measurement of timber in North Carolina, which tends to pro- 
tect farmers owning timber, and otherwise advancing the 
value of their timber forests. 


He is a member of the following important committees : Ed- 
ucation; Public Roads and Turnpikes; Blind Institutions, and 
Propositions and Grievances. 


He has made a most competent Representative, and has well 
won the confidence and high regard of his constituents, and 
added new laurels to his splendid reputation. 


G. W. WILSON, representing the county of Transylvania, is 
60 years old. He was born in Henderson, and was a member 
of the Constitutional Convention of 1875. He was a member 
of the Legislature in 1876, of the Senate. in ’87, and was re- 
elected in ’98 by a majority of 37 votes. He is a successful 
farmer. 


J. B. RUSSELL, of Carteret County, was born in the county 
he represents 62 years ago. He is a successful farmer and 
dealer in general merchandise. Was educated at the county 
schools. Has been magistrate, County Commissioner, Sheriff 
and Postmaster. Was elected to the Lower House by a ma- 
jority of 220 votes, 


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MR. BREVARD NIXON. 


A sketch of the General Assembly of 1899 without a mention 
of Mr. Brevard Nixon, the able and efficient Principal Clerk 
of the House of Representatives, would be like playing Ham- 
let without a Hamlet. This able young gentleman is one of 
‘the most capable and competent of clerks, and he has by his 
able and clever manner of conducting the affairs of the office, 
won the high regard of those associating with him and of the 
members of the House of Representatives. 


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BREVARD NIXON, 


PRINCIPAL CLERK HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 


Mr. Nixon was-born in Rock Springs Township in Lincoln 
County thirty years ago. He spent his boyhood days on the 
farm, going to school at the country school-house in the win- 
ter and working in the summer. In this manner he saved 
money evough to educate himself. At the early age of fifteen 
years he began teaching school in the summer months. He 
taught continuously from histwentieth to histwenty-fifth year. 

Mr. Nixon received his education principally at the Nixon 
School-house, the Rock Springs Seminary at Denver in Lin- 
coln County, and at Catawba College, Newton, N. C. 

At the age of twenty-five he commenced reading law, shortly 
after which he finished his studies at the University of North 
Carolina, and in February, 1895, was granted license to prac- 
tice law by the Supreme Court. 
began the practice of law in Charlotte, where he formed a part- 
nership with that brilliant and popular lawyer, Hon. John D. 
McCall, of thatcity. Since that time he has been connected 
with some of the most important cases of the Charlotte bar. 

In the campaign of 1898, in the famous battle for ‘‘White Su- 
premacy,’’ Mr. Nixon was a vigorous and prominent fighter for 
the grand cause. He did such valiant service that his friends 
insisted on running him for the Principal Clerkship of the 
House of Representatives. 
a number of strong opponents, and in his able and character- 
istic manner came out, as usual, a winner. Since his appoint- 
ment at the formation of the Legislature he has thade a record 


After receiving his license he 


He entered the race against quite 


NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 


that is gratifying, not only to his friends and the Democratic 


Party but to himself. He has made one of the most compe-. 
tent Principal Clerks ever elected by the Democratic Party, and 
has paved the way for a brilliant future. There are no deeds 


too great for this young gentleman to accomplish. 


MR. THOMAS W. ALEXANDER. 


The youngest Clerk of the General Assembly of North Caro- 
lina is the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. 
Thomas. W. Alexander was born two miles west of the city 


of Charlotte twenty years ago, at the old homestead, known 2 


as ‘‘Enderly,’? where he spent his childhood days. He re- 
ceived a liberal education at Horner’s Military School at Ox- 


ford, A. & M. College at Raleigh, and the University of North © 


Carolina, where he completed his education. 

In the summer of 1896 he began reading law under Messrs. 
Jones and Tillett, of Charlotte, and in February, 1899, he ap- 
peared before the Supreme Court for examination for license. 
to practice law, and passed a brilliant examination, failing to 
get the license only because he was not 21 years of age. 


Mr Alexander is a son of that distinguished statesman, Hon. . 
S. B. Alexander, who was a member of the Fifty-first and Fifty-.' 


second Congress, and while young in years, he is an able 
and intelligent young gentleman, who has bright prospects 
ahead of him. 


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ALEXANDER, 


ASST. CALENDAR CLERK HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 


He was appointed Assistant Calendar Clerk of the House of 
Representatives by Mr. Nixon, and he has fulfilled the import- 
ant work attached to this position in an able and efficient 
manner, winning the respect of those associated with him, as 
well as of the the members of House of Representatives. 

Mr. Alexander is an able young Democrat, and if he fol- 
lows in the footsteps of his father North Carolina will yet hear 
from him in a brilliant manner. 

Success be with you,-young man. 


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ad MR. H. C. COWAN. 

‘a; The subject of our sketch was born near Webster, in Jackson 

~County, 27 years ago. His early days were spent on the farm 
of his father. He was educated at the local schools and at 

-Fairview College, in Buncombe County, where he finished his 
education. 


Photo. by Wharton. 
H. C. COWAN, 


JOURNAL CLERK HOUSE OF REPREPENTATIVRS. 


Since he was fifteen years old he has taken an active interest 
in politics, and before he was old enough to vote he was Secre- 
tary of the local Democratic Club, and has been honored by 
being elected President of the Club at various times. Before 
attaining his majority he was elected County Superintendent 
of Public Instruction, and immediately on becoming of age he 
qualified and took charge of the office, which he kept for two 
years. He was asked to serve a second term, but declined to 
accept the nomination for the Clerkship of the Superior Court 


of Jackson County in 1894, and was elected by a handsome. 


majority, overcoming much opposition and strong combina- 
tions against himself. He held this office for four years and was 
the youngest Superior Court Clerk in the State. Mr. Cowan 
was offered a renomination, but declined to accept on account 
of his business interests. 


He made an excellent clerk, and by his able manner of 
handling the work of the office he won the confidence and high 
esteem of the people of his county, and is to-day one of the 
most popular young politicians in the West. 


During the famous campaign for ‘‘White Supremacy” in 
1898, he was acting as Chairman of the County Democratic 
Executive Committee, and was a member of the Executive 
Committee of the Ninth Congressional District for Jack- 
son County, canvassing the county in the interests of Con- 
gressman-elect Crawford, of the Ninth Congressional Dis- 
trict, and helping him to win his race and add to the splendid 
victory of the Democratic Party. 

At the formation of the General Assembly, Mr. Cowan 


formed a combination with Mr. Brevard Nixon, of Charlotte, 
for the Clerkship of the House, throwing his support to Mr. 
Nixon for the principal Clerkship, with the understanding 
that he be appointed First Assistant Clerk, having charge of 
the Journal of the day’s proceedings, which is one of the most 
important and responsible Clerkships of the Assembly. 

Mr. Cowan has filled this position in an able manner, and 
has won the respect and high regard of his associates and the 
members of the House of Representatives. He is a courteous 
and entertaining gentleman and is thoroughly familiar with 
all the intricate details of office work. 

He has made a record for himself that is gratifying to him- 
self and a credit to those who helped appoiut him. He hasa 
bright future before him in the political fields. 

Mr. Cowan is also engaged in the general merchandise busi- 
ness at Sylva, North Carolina, where he has a prosperous and 
growing business. 


FRANK D. HACKETT. 


The subject of this sketch was born on the old Hackett 
homestead, ‘‘ Maizefield,’’ near Wilkesboro, Wilkes County, 
N. C., on the 14th day of June, 1857. His father, Charles C. 
Hackett, was for many years a prominent teacher in North 
Carolina. His mother was Jane Cuthbert Sturgis, daughter of 
Ex-Associate Justice Sturgis, of the Georgia Supreme Court, 
and in his day one of the most noted criminal lawyers of the 
State of Georgia. 


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FRANK D, HACKETT, 


OFFICE CLERK HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 


On account of the failure of his father’s health compelling 
him to quit teaching and retire to a farm, the subject of this 
sketch quit school at thirteen, and spent his summers from 
that time on, until he was twenty-four, working on the farm, 
and his winters in teaching, and pursuing his studies under 
his father’s supervision and direction. 

At twenty-four he commenced business life as a bookkeeper, 


54 NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 


keeping books for some of the largest business firms of West- 
ern North Carolina, until he entered the legal profession, in 
1890, he having studied law during his leisure moments while 
bookkeeping. In 1884 he married Miss Alice Phillips, near 
Jefferson, Ashe County, from which union has sprung two sons 
and two daughters. 

Mr. Hackett is an active attorney in his native town of Wilkes- 
boro, enjoying a good practice in Wilkes and adjoining coun- 
ties. | 

He has never held office, with the exception of the office of 
Distillery Surveyor, under Ex-President Cleveland’s last Ad- 
ministration, which position was tendered him without solici- 
tation on his part, and which he filled for three years to the 
satisfaction of the Government and the people with whom he 
had to deal. 

He has always taken an active interest in Democracy, and 

labored faithfully on the stump and in other ways for the suc- 
cess of the party in all the campaigns of late years, and more 
especially during the last campaign for ‘‘ White Supremacy ”’ 
in North Carolina. He was a candidate for Principal Clerk of 
the present House, but withdrew his name from before the 
caucus in the interest of Mr. Nixon, thus insuring his unani- 
mous election by the caucus. Mr. Nixon selected him as one 
of his assistants, and as such he has made a faithful and 
efficient officer of the House. 
_ Mr. Hackett is a courteous, entertaining gentleman, and is 
a most able clerk. He is a gentleman who is a credit to 
the office he holds, and is a popular favorite with the members 
of both Houses. 


MR. C. W. LANEY. 


One of the most competent and efficient gentlemen con- 
nected with the House of Representatives is Mr. C. W. La- 
ney, Copying Clerk of the House. 


Photo. by Wharton. 
Cc. W. LANEY, 


COPYING CLERK HOUSE OF REPSENTATIVES. 
He was born in Monroe, N. C., 38 years ago. He received a 
liberal and thorough education at Trinity College. After 


leaving college he became interested in mining and minerals 
and has been for years in that business. He makes a business 
of leasing, developing and selling gold mines. He has been 
very successful in this line of business, and has handled some 
of the most successful mines in the State. 

Mr. Laney has always been a staunch Democrat, and in the 
famous campaign of 1898, for ‘‘White Supremacy,”’ he did 
valiant and efficient service in canvassing the county. He 
made a personal canvass with Hon. Johu D. Bellamy, Congress- 
man-elect from the Sixth Congressional District, and aided 
materially in swelling that distinguished statesman’s majority. 

In appreciation of Mr. Laney’s thorough work during the 
campaign he was offered a position in the Clerical Department 
of the House of Representatives on the formation of the Leg- 
islature, which he accepted. He was appointed Copying Clerk 
of the House, and has by his clever and competent work done 
much to help the office make a splendid record for the Demo- 
cratic Party. He is thoroughly familiar with all branches of 
clerical work, writing a fast and easy-flowing business hand. 
Mr. Laney is one of the most popular clerks in the General 


Assembly. He was Secretary of the County Executive Com- 
mittee of the Democratic Party in Union County, and part of 
the time was acting Chairman. In the position he wielded a 
strong influence, and won many votes for his party. 

Personally, Mr. Laney is a courteous, entertaining gentle- 
man of high moral character, and he has the brightest of pros- 
pects before him. 

We wish you success, Mr. Laney, and congratulate the 
Democratic Party on having you as one of their number. 


MR. J. S. ELMORE. 


In writing sketches of able North Carolinians, men who did 
much to win the victory, ‘‘White Supremacy,” in 1898, I take 
pleasure in mentioning the gentleman whose name heads this 
sketch, whose services were so much appreciated by the Dem- 


Photo. by Wharton. 


J. S. ELMORE, 
ENGROSSING CLERK HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 


cratic Party that when the General Assembly convened he was 
elected to the important position of Engrossing Clerk for the 


NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 


House of Representatives, which position he has filled with 
honor to his party and credit to himself. 

Mr. Elmore was born in 1853, in Macon County, where he 
spent his early days, and received his education at private 
schools and at Holly Springs. When he grew older he moved 
to Bryson City, in Swain County. 

He was for several years engaged in the mercantile business 
and was Postmaster at Bryson City forone term. He also held 
the important position of Tax Collecter for Swain County, 
and has in other ways enjoyed the respect and confidence of 
the people. He has always been noted for his unsurpassed 
ability as a hustler, and as one of those men who succeed 
when they undertake an object. 

He has always been a true and representative Democrat, 
and as he says, ‘‘the longer he lives the worse he gets,’’ and 
has retained the friendship of those who know him and asso- 
ciate with him. 

Such men area credit to the Democratic Party, and with 
them fighting for ‘‘ White Supremacy,’’ North Carolina will 
never again witness Fusion rule. 

Mr. Elmore is a fine business man, and is spoken of by his 


friends in connection with some position at the State Prison, 
though he has never signified his readiness to accept such an 
honor if tendered him. Should he, however, be chosen, 
there will be no more high-toned and efficient officer than he 
connected with that institntion, 

As Engrossing Clerk, Mr. Elmore has made a splendid rec- 
ord and drawn around himself a host of friends, who are for 
him personally for any position to which he may aspire. 


EDMUND B. NORVELLE. 


Thorough, efficient and correct in his work is the able gen- 
tleman whose name heads this sketch. Mr. Edmund B. Nor- 
velle, Enrolling Clerk for the General Assembly of North Car- 


Photo, by Wharton. 


EDMUND B. NORVELLE, 


ENROLLING CLERK GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 


olina for 1899 and 1900, was born in Lunenburg County, Va., 
37 years ago, and reared in Charlotte County, Va. 


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Mr. Norvelle came to North Carolina June 1, 1884, and ac- 
cepted a position in the offices of the County and Superior 
Court Clerks. He later learned the drug business. After 
spending a few years in this buiness he began reading. law, and 
shortly afterwards was admitted to the bar. He now has quite 
a lucrative practice in Western North Carolina, and has his offi- 
ces at Murphy, in Cherokee County. During the recent cam- 
paign for Democracy and ‘‘ White Supremacy ’’ he took an ac- 
tive part in his district, and had the pleasure of winuing quite 
a number of votes for his party. His valuable services were 
appreciated in an appropriate manner by his election as En- 
rolling Clerk of the General Assembly. He was elected by the 
Senate on first ballot, in the joint caucus of the House of Rep- 
resentatives and Senate he was elected by acclamation, which 
is the first time in the history of the State that a Clerk has 
been elected by acclamation. 

One of the most graceful and noble acts of the campaign 
and Legislature was performed when Mr. Norvelle, without 
consulting either the House or Senate, appointed Mrs. Marga- 
rette B. Shipp, widow of William EK. Shipp, that gallant officer 
who was killed while fighting for his country, as Chief Assist- 
ant Enrolling Clerk. When Mr. Norvelle announced to the 
General Assembly that he had made this appointment, his ac- 
tion was unanimously approved. 

The work executed in the Enrolling Clerk’s department dur- 
ing the session of 1899, under the able direction of Mr. Nor- 
velle, was thorough and complete, and was kept up from day 
to day, without any delay. Bills were received one day, en- 
rolled and ready for ratification next morning. When the day 
for adjournment came, every bill in this department was en- 
rolled and delivered to the presiding officers for their signa- 
tures promptly on time. This is a record that Mr. Norvelle 
and his assistants can point to with pardonable pride, a record 
never before equalled in this department. 

Mr. 
looking gentleman, one whom it is a. pleasure to know and be 
friends with. He has that pleasantry and courtesy so natural 
to true Southern men, especially Virginians, and it is with 
pleasure that I predict for him a brilliant future in the legal 
and political arena. 


Norvelle personally is a handsome and distinguished 


MR. M. L. SHIPMAN. 

In writing of the General Assembly, and the able Demo- 
crats who compose it, I think it would be incomplete without 
a mention of the able clerks who make the records of the 
proceedings. Conspicuous among the most capable clerks of 
the Senate is Mr. M. L. Shipman, the efficient Calendar Clerk. 
He was born in Henderson County, December 31, 1866, and is 
the only son of Francis M. and Martha A. Shipman. 
reared on a farm, and obtained only a common scliool educa- 
tion in the public schools, the Transylvania High School and 
the Brevard Academy, through which schools he made his way 


He was 


under very adverse circumstances. Mr. Shipman was an apt 
student, and was a teacher in the public schools of Transyl- 
vania County from 1890 to 1894. He established the first per- 
manent newspaper in Transylvania County, at Brevard, in 
1891, The Transylvania Hustler. 

In 1892 he was elected Superintendent of Schools for Tran- 
sylvania County, and was again elected in 1894, serving ina 
most able and acceptable manuer until the office was abolished 
by the Fusion Legislature of 1895. He then returned to his 
native county and established the French Broad Hustler at 
Hendersonville, on October 1, 1896, which was the first Demo- 
cratic newspaper that ever met with any success in the county. 
During the famous campaign of 1898 for ‘‘ White Supremacy ”’ 
Mr. Shipman demonstrated the ability of himself and the 


56 NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 


value of his paper by making a strong and efficient fight, and 
by doing much to reduce the Republican majority. So well 
did he succeed that the majority was reduced from 700 down 
to 15. 

Mr. Shipman still maintains his paper at Brevard, which is 
now well known as the revard Leader. 


Photo, by Wharton. 


M. L. SHIPMAN, 


CALENDAR CLERK OF THE SENATE, 


Mr. Shipman is a leader of the Democratic Party in his 
county and Senatorial district, being Chairman of the County 
and Senatorial Executive committees. He exhibited much ability 
and activityin the last campaign as an executive worker and or- 
ganizer, and his effective work was recognized by the leading 
Democrats of the State and the party, and his efforts were re- 
warded by the Democratic leaders by electing him Calendar 
Clerk of the Senate, which is one of the most important 
clerkships of the Senate. He has filled this position in a 
most capable and efficient manner, and has won the high re- 
gard of the Senate by his courteous and prompt attention to 
the duties attending the position. Such men deserve credit, 
and never fail to get it. 


HON. W. E, FOUNTAIN. 


Politicians throughout the State know of W. E. Fountain, 
but few know of his motives and purposes in active polities. 
His career has been that of a business man. He was born in 
Nash County 1557, attended D. S. Richard’s school in Wilson, 
N. C., several vears, and has resided in different sections of 
the State. For fifteen years he was connected with the Atlan- 
tic Coast Line Railroad as Agent aud Telegraph Operator. 
Fifteen years ago he erected a private telegraph line from Tar- 
boro to Greenville and Washington, N. C., aud one year after- 
wards he removed to Tarboro to assume the management of 
this line, in connection with that of the Western Union Tele- 
graph Company’s office, and shortly afterwards assumed the 
Agency of the Southern Express Company. ; 


‘His efforts and career in Tarboro has been that of a business 
man. Prior to his coming to Tarboro he resided at Fremont, 
in Wayne County, and was Mayor and Justice of the Peace 
there for ten years. In 1887 he was elected Mayor of Tarboro, 


which position he beld for eight terms, During his adminis- 


tration the town made wonderful progress. He organized the 
Tarboro Board of Trade and has been its President since the 
organization, By means of this organization he launched 
many enterprises, secured the building of a beautiful City 
Hall, a city waterworks, paving of sidewalks and many other 
improvements. He organized aud put into successful opera- 
tiou the Tarbero Cotton Mills, aided largely in securing the 
Riverview Knitting Mills. j 


HON. W. E. FOUNTAIN. 


He was the pioneer in building the first tobacco warehouse 
east of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, and it was main- 
ly through his efforts that the tobacco market was established 
and maintained. He organized the Edgecombe Honiestead, 
Building and Loan Association. He organized and established 
the Bank of Tarboro, and is its Vice-President; is Vice-Presi- 
dent, Secretary and Treasurer of the West Tarboro Land and 
Improvement Company, which owns the home property form- 
erly owned by Mr. William S. Battle. He aided and enconr- 
aged the establishment of Tarboro’s most excellent graded 
schools. He has always been foremost in the upbuilding and 
advancement cf the community’s best interest. 

His thoughts and efforts, being on these lines, led him toa 
comprehensive understanding of the conditions in this section, 
hence he entered into active politics two years ago for the sole 
purpose of trying to correct evils which grew out of the negro 
being in politics and of the tendency under what was kuown 
‘ring rule.’’? In 1894 he published in the Zaréoro Southerner 
articles urging the Democratic committees to refer the Sena- 
torial question at that time to the primaries, and warned them 
of the danger if they did not. This warning was unheeded, 
and the result is well known. Two years later, seeing the 
trend and realizing that greater evils would follow if the negro 
was still to be a factor, comprehending the situation, he 
sought to make himself the central figure in the black belt 


NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 57 


with the sole purpose of forcing ‘‘White Supremacy ’”’ to the 
point where politicians could not evade the elimination of the 
negro. He was fully conscious of negro domination in eastern 
counties and of its odiousness to his race and of its retarding 
influence uppn our material advancement. He only waited 
for the opportune time to accomplish best results. He alone 
knew his forces and power. In other words it was well known 
and conceded that he held the key which would unlock pan- 
demonium or peace. good order and Anglo-Saxon rule, at the 
proper moment at Goldsboro, and by his speech there, the 
keys were given to the leaders of Democratic White Suprem- 
acy, and by this act the strained and doubtful situation was 
relieved and white supremacy assured from that moment. His 
speeches and letters have already been recorded in history. 
He displayed great discretion and nerve force, and made sacri- 
fices cheerfully for what he conceived to be for the best inter- 
est of his race and State. His enemies and disappointed par- 
tisaus may condemn him, but unbiased intelligence will 
applaud and pronounce his course patriotic. 

To make his work more effective, and failing to accomplish 
this with the aid of Captain Lloyd, the white candidate in the 
Second Congressioual District, which candidate had failed to 
meet the paramount issue of the:campaign, and in consequence 
could not command the white supremacy vote, Mr. Fount- 
ain, three days before the election, announced himself an in- 
dependent candidate for Congress in the Second District, for 
the purpose of vindicating white supremacy, and, as far as his 
acts and influence could reach, to burst the unholy Fusion. al- 
liance. While his acts contributed largely to the success of 
white supremacy, and had Mr. Lloyd carried out his agree- 
ment to retire in favor of some other Populist who would meet 
the issue, a white man representing Anglo-Saxons would have 
been our next Congressman, and not a black representative 
left to stigmatize our State with negro postmasters and cast a 
shadow over our otherwise glorious victory. Mr. Fountain 
feels gratified to know that the election returns establish this 
position. However, he did not enter the race expecting to be 
elected under such conditions, but simply to vindicate a prin- 
ple. 


SENATOR E. L. TRAVIS. 


Among North Carolina’s able Democrats, none stand higher 
than that gentleman whose name heads this sketch. He is not 
a politician, that is of the office-seeking kind, and never held 
a political position before in his life, until the beginning of the 
recent, campaign, during which he was, and is yet, Chairman 
of the Democratic Executive Committee of Halifax County. 

Senator E. L. Travis was born in Halifax County, N. C., June 
6th, 1866 ; At an early age he began 


reading law, and to-day he is perhaps one of the Old North 
State’s most able and prominent lawyers. 

At the opening of the recent campaign he accepted the nom- 
ination for the State Senatorship from his district, and was 
elected by a handsome majority. During the session of the 
General Assembly he did valiant and faithful work for the 
grand old party he has the honor to represent and won honors 
for Democracy and for himself. As Chairman of the Commit- 
tee on Constitutional Amendments and the Committee on Ap- 
propriations, he did effective work. His able advice and labor 
as a member of the following committees was recognized by 
his associates: Railroads and Railroad Commission; Penal 
Institutions; Counties, Cities, Towns and Townships; Public 
Roads and Turnpikes; Corporations; Judiciary; Finance and 
Election Laws. 

Senator Travis is a man whose courteous and intelligent 
matiner wins friends and influence, not only for himself but 
for the Democratic Party. He is wise and conservative in his 
_ actions, and as a State Senator representing his district in the 
Democratic ranks, he has won honor and recognition. 

With such men as he, giving their time and services to the 
party, we can not be overthrown. 


he is self educated man. 


HON. JOHN C. DREWRY. 


While writing about prominent and representative Demo- 
crats of the State of North Carolina it gives me pleasure to 
say a few words about Mr. John C. Drewry, of Raleigh, 
N. C., the man who, as Alderman of the city of Raleigh, 
has done more to beautify the Capital City than any city 
official ever holding office in the history of the city. As 
Chairman of the Street Committee and Finance Committee he 
has worked thoroughly and faithfully in the interests of the 
city. Through his influence $50,000 worth of city bonds were 
issued and spent for street improvements—walks, shade trees, 
etc., and during the recent Legislature, through Mr. Drewry, 
a bill was passed authorizing the city to vote on a $100,000 
bond issue which, if the citizens so will, shall be spent for 
further improvements of Ralzigh and her streets. Mr. Drewry 
is a broad-minded, progressive business man, who takes a great 
interest in the advancement of his adopted State and city. 


HON. 


JOHN C. DREWRY, 


A PROMINENT STATESMAN AND BUSINESS MAN OF THE 
CAPITAL CITY. 


Mr. John C. Drewry is State Agent for North and South 
Carolina for the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, 
of Newark, New Jersey, one of the leading life compa- 
nies doing business im the Southern States, which company 
was organized in 1845—writes any form of representative pol- 
icies. The long experience of the Mutual Benefit, and its un- 
interrupted prosperity and growth, prove the soundness of its 
business methods, and render it certain that the company will 
perform its agreement to the letter. During the fifty-four 
years in which they have been engaged in business they have 
paid out to policy-holders more than $160,000,000, which is 
about 86 per cent of the total premium receipts. The cash as- 
sets of this company amount to $66,219,976.49. 


Mr. Drewry is one of Raleigh’s leading citizens. He is 
prominent in political, commercial and social spheres of the 
Capital City, and has the confidence and respect of those who 
know him. He is a Democrat, and one who takes great pride 
in the success of the State of North Carolina. He has done 
much for our people in his quiet, modest way, and is at all 
times ready and willing to give his time and spend his money 
in the interest and advancement of the commercial interests of 


the State. 


58 NORTH CAROLINA STATESMEN. 


MAJ. B. F. DIXON. 


A gallant soldier, an ideal Democrat. 

There are few men in the State of North Carolina who 
are better or more favorably known than is our distinguished 
statesman and soldier, Major B. F. Dixon, of Cleveland County. 
He was born in Cleveland County, at Kings Mountain, March 
27, 1846. He attended the public schools of his county, where 
he received a liberal education. When he was 16 years of 
age he entered the Confederate Army as a private in the Four- 
teenth North Carolina Regiment; later he was promoted for 
gallantry as a soldier to the Second Lieutenancy in the Forty- 
ninth North Carolina Regiment. His admirable and dashing 
qualities as a soldier soon won for him additional honors, and 


MAJOR B. F. DIXON, 
ONE OF NORTH CAROLINA’S REPRESENTATIVE SOLDIERS 
AND STATESMEN. 


he was appointed Captain of Company G, of this regiment, 
which position he held until the close of the war. After the 
war Captain Dixon began the study of medicine at the Charles- 
ton Medical College, at Charleston, S. C., where he graduated 
with high honors in 1874. Immediately after he began the 
practice of his profession at Kings Mountain, where he built 
up an excellent practice. 

In 1884 he was appointed Superintendent of the Oxford 
Orphan Asylum, at Oxford, N. C., which position he filled 
for six years with honor to himself and credit to the insti- 
tution. In 1890 he accepted the Presidency of the Greens- 
boro Female College, which he kept for four years, aud did 
much to upbuild that institution. In 1897 he resumed the 
practice of medicine, and built up a splendid, lucrative practice. 


In 1896 Dr. Dixon was elected as a member of the Legisla- 
ture by the people of Cleveland County by a large majority. 
He demonstrated his ability before this body in a most able 


manner. 


When the war between the United States and Spain broke 
out, Dr. Dixon immediately tendered his services, which were 
accepted, and he was appointed a Major in the Second North 
Carolina Regiment, which position he filled with honor to his 
regiment, his State and to himself. Major Dixon has always 
been an active audinfluential Democrat, and has been honored 
with the confidence and respect of the grand old party. 


Major Dixon has brilliant possibilities before him, both in 
the political and professional arenas. He has for years been 
a recognized leader in the ranks of Democracy in his section 
of the State. 


We congratulate the party, also Cleveland County, in hav- 
ing such an able and distinguished Representative. 


COL. ROBERT H. ABERNATHY. 


Was born in Providence Township, Mecklenburg County, 
April 8, 1864, at the famous old homestead of Green S. Rea, 
where he spent his boyhood days. He was educated at the 
public schools, and studied at home constantly. He is a 
practical farmer, and follows farming from a practical and 
scientific standpoint. He owns one of the handsomest farms 
in the State, near Mountain Island, N. C., in Gaston County, 
known as ‘‘Open View Farm.’’ Colonel Abernathy is known 
throughout his section of the State as one of the most success- 
ful managers of labor. ‘ He is very firm on all public questions, 
and he points with pride to the fact that whenever he takes sides 
in any issue he is as firmas the rock of Gibraltar. He has always 
been a loyal and staunch Democrat. In every political fight 
which he has been interested in he has come out winner, He © 
does not know or recognize the word defeat, when hard work 
will accomplish hisend. It is conceded by the people of his 
county that he has done much toward educating the people 
of his county; he has built school-houses, and in other ways 
helped the people. 


COL. ROBERT L, ABERNATHY. \2\ 9% 

Colonel Abernathy is one of those peculiar men who always 
attend to their own business. He is a leading Democrat in his 
section of the State, and has taken the stump in the interests 
of the partv during many campaigns. His friends have the 
utmost confidence in him, while the opposite parties fear him 
in political controversies. Personally he has not an enemy 
among either party. 

Colonel Abernathy is the promoter and manager of the famous 
‘‘River Bend Rallies’’ and picnics, where thousands congre- 
gate annually. At these meetings Col. Abernathy has the 
finest orators in the State, who are prominent politically and 
personally, who take part in the big ‘‘River Bend Rallies.” 

Colonel Abernathy’s home, the beautiful ““Open View Farm,” 
is one of the cosiest homes in the State. His orchards are 
among the finest in the State. And he has the finest poultry 
yards of any small poultry raiser in the State, where he raises 
thoroughbred chickens, such as Light Brahmas. Buff Cochins, 
Barred Plymouth Rocks, Silver-laced Wyandottes and Brown 
Leghorns. Healso raises Buff, White and Black Cochin Bantams. 
He also has very fine kennels of imported Scotch Collie dogs, 
which are noted for their beauty. His herd of Black Essex 
swine and thoroughbred Jersey cattle are among the finest in 
the State. 

Colonel Abernathy is one of the few prosperous and successful 
farmers who raise everything almost that is necessary for home 
comforts on his own farm. He is a princely entertainer, and. _ 
makes his guests feel perfectly at home. Many of the most 
prominent men of the State visit the Colonel in the summer 
cuthe and they find a warm welcome and an entertaining . 

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